The spirit of radical egalitarianism has insinuated itself into every dimension of American life. ”Elitism” is a pejorative widely used to characterize anyone who believes in excellence. The civil ...

Egalitarianism teaches that everyone deserves to be treated with equal consideration and respect. Mostly this is meant to stress how everyone should be provided (as a matter of public policy) with ...

Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza of Tanzania are famous for their egalitarianism. A resource redistribution experiment conducted with the Hadza suggests many tolerate inequality—as long as it benefits ...

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... if you look around the one at what it is countries do to mitigate income inequality, nobody is substantially equalizing things through the tax system, but many ...

Recently I met up with a Jewish academic from New York who had relocated to a midsize Jewish community in the South. In New York, he and his family had attended B’nai Jeshurun, the huge, well-known ...

Siegel, Jordan I., Amir N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz. "Egalitarianism and International Investment." Journal of Financial Economics 102, no. 3 (December 2011). (This study identifies the effect of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. THE WAGES OF EGALITARIANISM….We all know that men earn more than women. Is this due ...