His book, Cultural Capital, simply silenced not the public, because nothing ever silences the public, but simply silenced the debate about the culture wars in the academy.

I suspect in the wake of QE we'll be seeing more capital controls, it will spook markets a bit and give editors more fodder for “currency wars” headlines, but it will be a war with few casualties.

The only successful "war against poverty" consists in removing impediments that retard saving and in abolishing conditions making for capital decumulation.