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have institutionalized age segregation by confining the young to educational institutions, adults to the workplace, and the elderly to retirement homes. Consequently the generations spend most of their time alongside rather than with one another. The domains become increasingly partitioned and contact between them correspondingly reduced. Such apar
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
The great political defect of Locke and his disciples, from a modern point of View, was their worship of property.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Our subdivision's development was linked to a massive demographic shift that had begun before World War II. As African Americans migrated up from the South for jobs in northern cities, whites abandoned those cities. They paved over more and more of the plains, inventing suburban sprawl to satisfy a need—not simply for land, but for white land. In D
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
L’eurosceptique le plus virulent des années 1950 est l’omniprésent Wilhelm Röpke. Il est écouté par le ministre ouest-allemand de l’Économie (et membre de la SMP) Ludwig Erhard et il a un accès facile à la presse en tant qu’intellectuel médiatique12. Röpke craint que la CEE soit une simple extension de la « solution en bloc » de la Communauté europ
... See moreQuinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)
What is remarkable is not that the rate of tax charged should fall as a percentage of income in this particular case, but that it should ever have seemed “fair” that different persons should pay wildly different amounts for the services of government during the twentieth century. This is particularly odd in that those who use government services th
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The United States was founded on the noble idea that people have “certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Each of these three unalienable rights—so essential to the American character that the founders saw them as God-given—requires a stable home.
Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Regardless of how landlords came to own property—sweat, intelligence, or ingenuity for some; inheritance, luck, or fraud for others—rising rents mean more money for landlords and less for tenants. Their fates are bound and their interests opposed. If the profits of urban landlords were modest, that would be one thing. But often they are not. The an
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
L’extension sociale de la financiarisation et la circulation des titres de dette dans un vaste réseau privatisé de l’épargne ne font que déplacer les inégalités liées au régime politique du bondholder. Aux États-Unis, la moitié de la dette publique est détenue par les 1 % des ménages les plus riches et continue de jouer le rôle d’un instrument de r
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