McIlheran and Shown

Two separate posts, two separate topics.

Same end-of-story.

NOT "coincidence."

Shown:

The less happy part of this story, however, is the dramatic slowdown in wages for working class men paired with the fact that American public schools are getting very poor results from low-income boys. Equality is good, but leveling down is not

McIlheran:

Progressives have always, then, proposed ways of undoing the market, of substituting a politically determined ranking of the worth of individuals’ work.

The Progressive Disease.