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What to expect when no one's expecting
How is this for polemic? (2013-10-03)

The Left laments the income gap, and proposes various forms of social welfare that will cushion the blow, all the while even more enthusiastically constructing the meritocratic society and populating government and leading thinkeries with Ivy League “winners.” These button-down hipsters increasingly accumulate in a select number of urban echo-chambers described most recently by Charles Murray , where they lament the rise of a growing underclass while sipping $7 lattes. These social policies are ...

*What to Expect When No One’s Expecting* (2013-02-09)

That is the new book by Jonathan Last , which I liked very much.  Last recently wrote “In the end, demography always wins” and you will find that view writ large in the book.  He also wrote “Global demographics, not domestic policy, will control who comes and who goes.”

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