Capital ideas.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing; Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill - Brief article - Book review

Speaking of the gap between the rich and everyone else, here are two recent books I admire--and you won't find it hard to guess why I like them when you read the full titles and subtitles. One is The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing, by Greg Anrig. The other is Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill), by David Cay Johnston, in which...