The world is all the theories that are the case. Not.

[Danny Weltman]

I don't know if I'd call it the MOST controversial theory about the origins
of ISIS. I could come up with ten more controversial theories right now
("the Jews did it," etc). Piketty has inequality-colored glasses on - I'm
pretty sure he's never seen something that he didn't think was either a
cause of or a result of economic inequality - and I can't speak to the
"inequality causes terrorism" question, but as to the "the West causes the
inequality" issue, a good book to read with a bit more sophistication than
Piketty brings to the table is Thomas Pogge's *World Poverty and Human
Rights *(or, for a short summary, this article:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3717 ).

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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