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3 April 2016

The happiness sweepstakes

What do these so-called “happiness” surveys measure, and how do they make comparisons and rankings? The most famous is the World Happiness Report (WHR), which began […]

23 January 2016

Bernie, you’re a social democrat

Bernie Sanders calls himself a “democratic socialist,” a provocative label in neo–Cold War America. Most people still probably associate socialism with the Soviet Union and the […]

22 January 2016

A model society?

In his presidential campaign, the self-described “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders has been urging the United States, if it wants to redress the scandalous social conditions […]