We have referred to Ms. Warren and Ms. Tyagi’s book, The Two Income Trap, rather often in these pages. When Obama wanted to appoint her consumer czar, she was attacked.  Here is Christopher Caldwell, of the neocon magazine The Weekly Standard, defending her. In reference to: “Elizabeth Warren, Closet Conservative” by Christopher Caldwell at The [...]

When I was young in the 1950s and early 60s it was just assumed that ‘progress’ was leading us toward a life of more and more leisure and that work was going to get easier and easier.  Actually, it didn’t quite happen that way.  As technology made work easier, more and more work became things [...]

A lot of the gap between genders can be blamed on the fact that technology has made a lot of jobs physically easier and mentally harder.  Women are still on the average physically weaker, so now a lot more jobs are those in which women can potentially compete with men in a way they could [...]