Mark Perrino

11 May 2016

Janteloven: the great leveler

Earlier I alluded to a fairly well-known but somewhat counterintuitive explanation of Denmark’s top happiness ranking: low expectations. Danes aren’t the most cheerful and effusive nationality. […]
1 May 2016

Sanders for Prime Minister

Just when Bernie Sanders’s chances of winning the Democratic Party nomination are being written off and the Hillaryites (or whatever they’re called) are nagging him to […]
25 April 2016

Socialized medicine – dangerous to your health?

  Health care is probably the testiest issue in Bernie Sanders’s campaign to pull America in the direction of a welfare state. The Danish single-payer system, […]
18 April 2016

Socialism and happiness

Anyone who has been reading the first posts here must be wondering when I’m going to get around to addressing one of the main questions implied […]