James Piereson, Why Redistribution Fails, Encounter Broadside No. 45 (New York: Encounter Books, 2015). According to American progressives, economic inequality is a social-justice problem for which income redistribution is a necessary political solution. In this Encounter Broadside, James Piereson sets the moral question about income redistribution to one side and focuses on a more practical question, whether government can do it well. He answers that it cannot. “[T]he progressive case is based upon a significant fallacy,” he writes; “it assumes that the U.S. government is actually capable of redistributing income from the wealthy to the poor. For reasons of policy, … Continue reading Review of ‘Why Redistribution Fails’ by James Piereson