Subject: Daschle, Rangel, Dodd and Bertrand de Juvenal Jonah, I picked up De Juvenal’s The Ethics of Redistribution and came across this timely quote in the introduction: “We may well wonder which of these two closely linked phenomena is predominant: whether it is redistribution or centralization. We may ask ourselves whether what we are dealing with is not a political even more than a social phenomenon. This political phenomenon consists in the demolition of the class enjoying ‘independent means’ and in the massing of means in the hands of managers. This results in a transfer of power from individuals to...