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Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof has an opinion piece called " The One Privilege Liberals Ignore " I find it utterly unpromising. He describes the problem, then says Bush tried to reward marriage and that failed. "Lifting earnings is where liberals have the solutions: strengthened labor unions, community college support, skills training initiatives such as high school career academies and groups that provide technical training like Per Scholas." Yup, that's the solution. But it doesn't include the judgement that conservative types want to launch and in the judgement, they want people to suffer. So he's described a problem, but he doesn't like the liberal solution, and he doesn't have one, and well, that's the liberals fault. Nice. I can't believe they published this in the New York Times, except they try to give fair voice to conservative voices.  For many years conservatives have felt appropriately cowed by their lack of real solutions. They don't ...