by Frank Stilwell | Aug 24, 2016 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 13
An alternative to Hockey’s budget agenda As followers of the Evatt Foundation website will be well aware, economic inequalities have been increasing in many countries. These growing gaps have resulted primarily from the phenomenal growth in the income and...
by Russell Jacoby | Aug 24, 2016 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 13
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is as much a sociological as an intellectual phenomenon. Like Allan Bloom’s 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, it is a tome that unexpectedly captures the zeitgeist. Few read all of Bloom’s volume—for the...
by Andrew Leigh | Aug 24, 2016 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 13
Australian egalitarianism under threatIn 2002, two bombs exploded in Bali nightclubs, killing and injuring hundreds of people. At the local hospital, there was a shortage of painkillers. Graeme Southwick, an Australian doctor on duty, asked patients to assess...
by Bernie Sanders | Aug 1, 2016 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 15
Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers. Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions – averaging...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 1, 2016 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 15
In the spring of 1971, I met a girl…” Thus began Bill Clinton’s charming, personal portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a speech that showed a master at the top of his skills.There were no particularly memorable lines, but a compelling story. All his signature...
by Tanya Plibersek | Sep 2, 2014 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 13
While Joe Hockey was preparing to deliver his first budget in May, a budget that unravelled Australia’s social fabric, he listened to a song called Best day of my life by American Authors. The “best day of my life” for Joe Hockey was the day he cut the pension, it was...
