Things to Read at Nighttime on May 5, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- Must-Read: : The British economy after the coalition
- : “The great sociologist William Julius Wilson argued long ago that widely-decried social changes… were actually caused by the disappearance of well-paying jobs in inner cities… [the] implicit prediction: if other racial groups were to face a similar loss of job opportunity, their behavior would change in similar ways…. There is no excuse for fatalism as we contemplate the evils of poverty in America. Shrugging your shoulders as you attribute it all to values is an act of malign neglect…”
- Must-Read: : Americans Get Free Trade’s Dark Side
- Must-Read: : Ideology Creators of the New Gilded Age
- : How an Astounding New Right-Wing Lie About the Economy Was Born
- Must-Read: : Funds Aren’t Cutting Fees, Investors Are
- : Firm Balance Sheets and Unemployment in the Great Recession
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- : Who invented the piano? And why was he forgotten?
- : I’d Rather Like Men Than Be a Sad Puppy
- Learning to Drive
- (1943): Looking Back On The Spanish War
- (1941): England Your England
- : “My white blood count is now up to 2.4… my ANC level is up to 2000…. So if you’re sick and you sneeze on me, you are no longer likely to kill me. You’ll just give me a cold…. I have months of recuperation ahead, and complete success won’t be confirmed until a follow-up biopsy in 60 days. And then I have a difficult decision about whether I should enter maintenance therapy…”