Daniel Brook

Daniel Brook's first book, The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America, will be reissued in paperback in April.

Extreme Inequality

March 20, 2008

A look at the gap between rich and poor via two books: David Cay Johnson's Free Lunch and Michael J. Thompson's The Politics of Inequality.

2007

Triumph of the Wills

November 15, 2007

A new apologia for Anglo-Saxon noblesse oblige needs a reality check.

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