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NYT: Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It

The New York Times considers this matter wondrous. How can people who want to reduce government welfare spending take government welfare? I see no contradiction. I might wish that my wife not make a particular dish every week, but if … Continue reading

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Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California

My favorite part of this biography by Hellman’s great-great-granddaughter Frances Dinkelspiel came on page 181. It describes how affluent German Jews in the San Francisco Bay Area reacted with ambivalent feelings to the arrival of Russian Jewish immigrants. Why were … Continue reading

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