David Ignatius Hides Upward Redistribution Policies as Market Outcomes. People are inclined to give much more legitimacy to market outcomes than policy outcomes engineered by governments.
That is why there is a whole industry devoted to convincing people that the upward redistribution of income over the last three decades, which has given the bulk of economic gains to the One Percent, is really just the result of the natural workings of the market. David Ignatius is one of the people who works in this industry. Edward Said, "Impossible Histories: Why the Many Islams Cannot be Simplified," Harper's, July 2002. Edward Said, "Impossible Histories: Why the Many Islams Cannot be Simplified," Harper's, July 2002 Discussed in this essay: Islam: A Short History, by Karen Armstrong.
Errata. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s metaphorical pile-ups, hollow analyses, and factual inaccuracies have garnered him three Pulitzer Prizes, and frighteningly unchecked power.
Photograph via Flickr by Charles Haynes “The House Republicans don’t seem to have noticed that today’s U.N. is not the U.N. of the 1970s when the Soviets and their pals could pass a resolution that the world was flat.”