Should we worry about income inequality? Is life better for most people today or 100 years ago? Is Bruce Springsteen’s music any good? AEI economics scholar Michael Strain returns to The Remnant to answer these and other questions.
Show Notes:
- Beto’s tweet
- Michael Strain’s AEI page
- Michael Strain’s Bloomberg page
- Michael Strain’s take on Thanos
- Daniel Boorstin – The Americans
- Find proof that life today rocks here
- Buy Suicide of the West
- The success sequence
- Amy Wax’s somehow controversial article
- The marriage premium
- When a better economy doesn’t fix marriage
- Alienated America – Tim Carney
- The Kuznets Curve
- Kevin Williamson on kulak liquidation
- Leda Cosmides and John Tooby on evolutionary psychology
- The Occupy Wall Street puppeteer
- On Blade Runner and corporate dystopias
- On Piketty
- The latest GLoP, without Pod
- Ten Caesars – Barry Strauss
- What have the Romans ever done for us?
- Jonah and Rich at the NRI Summit