July 16, 2010

Books

Mind the Gap

The Spirit LevelWhy Greater Equality Makes Societies StrongerRichard Wilkinson and Kate PickettBloomsbury Press, $28, 352 pp.

Daniel Finn

What if someone told you that a single reform could reduce this country’s rates of mental illness, obesity, and homicide by two-thirds; teenage birthrates by half; and prison populations by three-quarters? What if you were told that the same reform would raise life expectancy by four years, increase social mobility and civic engagement, and give the average American worker an (...)


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