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Giving Thanks for What’s Possible

November 20, 2012

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A lot of my friends don’t seem very thankful this season. Even though it’s the middle of November, and the newspapers are full of tips on turkey and advice on handling similarly ill-bred relatives, there is a shadow of gloom floating around. That chill in the air is not the weather. It’s our national mood. [...]

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The Conundrum of Capitalism

November 9, 2011

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Winston Churchill famously said that “democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried….”  The same is often said of free market capitalism.  Of capitalism itself, Churchill quipped “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing [...]

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