The Political Fight of the Century
The oldest conflict in American politics is the one between individualism and centralism. Reagan changed the terms by inverting them: the descendants of Jefferson’s yeoman farmers, with their desire for independence, became sturdy car-company executives and investment bankers yearning to breathe free of big government. The heirs of Hamilton’s arist
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The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
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One thing that unites those who voted for Trump and those who despaired at his being elected is a sense that the country requires transformational reform.