by Erik Kain on October 12, 2011
Protestors affiliated with the “Occupy Wall Street” protests wave signs and banners outside 1185 Park Avenue. I’ve thrown cold water on the ‘We are the 99%’ slogan two times (here and here) pointing out that wealth inequality is more starkly divided between the bottom 80-or-so percent and the top 20-or-so percent, rather than the top [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 23, 2011
The history of America’s attempt to bring about some semblance of universal healthcare is fraught with controversy and contradiction. Matt Yglesias posts this Kaiser Family Foundation poll on the recent healthcare legislation which shows that the bill’s parts are much more popular than the whole: As Matt points out, “mandate is super-unpopular among Republican voters, [...]
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In recent years, the number of people executed in America has plummeted: Crime has fallen dramatically in the same time period. Will Wilkinson points out that modernity has brought about a number of similar moral shifts, and concludes: In the face of such a decisive trend in moral culture, we can say a couple different [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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