Entries from Commentary tagged with 'war on the middle class'
Six Little Words
History books teem with six-word phrases, from the comforting ("Nothing to fear but fear itself") to the inspiring ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall") to the embarrassing ("Read my lips, no new taxes"). But the six words, "on the basis...
Beware the Stimulus Swindle
Whenever Washington starts patting itself on the back - whenever politicians of both parties start praising each other on an economic issue - hold onto your wallet, because you are about to get fleeced. That's precisely what happened during the...
When Barbarians Take Hostages
As a central villain in the famous book "Barbarians at the Gate," Henry Kravis has become one of the world's richest mavens of private equity--the Wall Street sector that buys up companies, breaks them apart and sells their assets. In...
Confronting the Hollow Men
T.S. Eliot's 1925 poem, The Hollow Men, says "the way the world ends" is "not with a bang, but a whimper." If Eliot were writing today, the hollow men might be America's conservative ideologues, the world that of the national...
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