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Makers and Takers
- Abstract
A Nation of Takers:
America’s Entitlement Epidemic
By Nicholas Eberstadt
Templeton Press, 144 pages
Nicholas Eberstadt has written an important, short book that crisply demonstrates how the welfare state has expanded and reveals the precipice on which enduring ideas of republican governance now teeter as a consequence. A Nation of Takers is instructive and startling, but Eberstadt only obliquely addresses what is truly corrosive about our present political arrangement.
About the Author
Jeremy Rozansky is assistant editor of National Affairs.
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