:Fixed Point

Mark Thoma invites us to consider whether the it is right that wealth, as a result of genetic factors or luck should be taxed. There are two key issue in the Economist excerpt quoted. Firstly, that the creation of a talent based meritocracy is creating a divide between the talented elite and the rest, because […]

The debate on the veil continues in England. As a libertarian, I cannot endorse the popularly held view that people should be made to dress one way or another, even if it means covering their entire faces and draping their bodies in a shapeless chador. Is it fair, then for Jack Straw to ask Muslim […]