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Who Goes To Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice

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Disturbing to hear all of this out loud, usually these thoughts about how unjust the Amerikan legal system is are only in my head. Matt Taibbi’s new book is The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap (2014). Here is the publisher’s blurb for the book: Over the last two decades, America … Read more

Piketty Fever – Piketty, Piketty, and More Piketty

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  A couple of weeks ago, I posted on the Thomas Piketty phenomenon, Can Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century Inspire Real Change? It was a popular post. So here is more, since there seems to be no shortage of media coverage of the man and his book and the right-wing hysteria he has … Read more