THE GREAT RISK SHIFT DEBATE. Sam hasn't done it yet, so allow me to recommend Matt's rejoinder to Jacob Hacker's Great Risk Shift argument. You're already hearing a ton about Hacker's book, but so far, most of the reviews and rundowns I've seen have either been uncritically laudatory or hackishly off-base. Matt's criticism, that Hacker's book marks a perpetuation of the "Third Way" unwillingness to discuss inequality, is the second most perceptive critique I've read of Hacker. The most perceptive critique is mine, but that won't go up until later today. So for now, read Matt.
--Ezra Klein
