Quote by Thomas Frank

“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about social class,…

— Thomas Frank

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award,…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all…

— Noam Chomsky

“As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so didn’t get…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience…

— Thomas Frank

“There is no solidarity in a meritocracy. The very idea contradicts the ideology of the well-graduated technocrats who rule us. As we shall see,…

— Thomas Frank

“Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help. My own…

— Arthur C. Brooks

“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals, liberalism separates…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy…

— Neal Boortz

Only the elites despise earning money.

— Newt Gingrich

Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting…

— George Packer

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

— Robert Reich