We often discuss the World Happiness Rankings, and how the Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top. It’s interesting, as I learned when I visited a customer’s home in Denmark, that kids don’t start school until they’re seven years old. …
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It’s not hard to imagine a world in which countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and the other social democracies did not exist. If that were the case, the type of libertarian blathering at left …
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To the reader who sent me this: I like your thinking, and I would love to see the U.S. refashion itself along the lines of Denmark and the other countries at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
Apparently, it hasn’t dawned on this fellow that the “ideas of the political left” are functioning perfectly well in the social democracies all around the world. By what measure? Well, human happiness, for one. Countries that offer their citizens taxpayer …
How is it possible that we have lost our way? Maybe this was never our “way” to begin with. American society is largely built upon a kind of rugged individualism, where our people really don’t care too much about others’ …
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When I meet Scandinavians, i.e., folks from countries that are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Rankings, I often ask them to explain this phenomenon. Almost uniformly, they respond in terms of the sense of community that pervades …
Anti-government, Trump-supporting Hillsdale College is ostensibly conducting a one-question survey of Facebook: What are your biggest concerns about socialism taking root in America? (I use the word “ostensibly” because real surveys from academically honest institutions don’t use loaded questions that …
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