NR PLUS
Magazine May 28, 2012, Issue

Beyond Efficiency

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It’s time to make the moral case for free markets

A couple of years ago I wrote a book called “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future.” I made what I thought was a very clever observation: that America is a “70 percent nation” when it comes to free enterprise. In virtually every survey on the matter, about seven in ten Americans say they believe free enterprise beats all other economic systems, even during recessions.

In response to this, several even cleverer reviewers pointed out an inconvenient truth: Americans may vow a monogamous love for free enterprise, but they have a huge fidelity …

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Articles

Politics & Policy

Hipster Hate

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In the pilot episode of HBO’s raunchy new comedy Girls, the main character’s parents announce that they will no longer be giving their 24-year-old daughter an allowance. If the young ...

Features

Books, Arts & Manners

Sections

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Poetry

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THE LAST KEENERS IN SCHUYLKILL (A Neighborhood in Philadelphia) She remembered that the Tobins were the last To have wailing mourners at a wake Women who cried in disbelief that a soul had fled. Who ...
Happy Warrior

Give-and-Take

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Some years ago in this space, I cited a famous Gerald Ford line he liked to use when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative audiences: “A government big enough to ...
Politics & Policy

Letters

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Don’t Be Cross with Her In “Occupy the Senate” (April 16), Kevin D. Williamson claims that Elizabeth Warren “was conspicuous in failing to cross herself” at a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast ...
Politics & Policy

The Week

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‐ If Geronimo had a great-great-great-step-granddaughter once removed, she’d look like Elizabeth Warren. ‐ If you have heard about the Obama campaign’s social-media offering “The Life of Julia,” you have likely ...
Athwart

The Buffet Rule

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This summer the State of Massachusetts will nix bake sales in school. Zero tolerance for frosting! Down with sprinkles! They want to ban kids’ selling fudge door-to-door to raise money, ...