Last Straw

What I find so great about the find­ings in The Spirit Level is that they com­pletely change the rules of the debate on income equal­ity. No longer does one need rely on grounds of fair­ness and justice, which fall on the deaf ears of a world suc­cumbed to the fal­la­cies of social Dar­win­ism, or “survival […]

U.S. finally comes in from the cold, so to speak: Clin­ton addressed the com­plaints of devel­op­ing coun­tries such as India and China that Amer­ica and the EU, by demand­ing bind­ing emis­sions cuts, want to saddle them with the bur­den of cli­mate change; they argue they did not cause the prob­lem and must pri­or­it­ise growth. She said […]