A Ridiculous New Book Says We Don’t Love the Rich Enough

“Ye have the poor always with you,” says Jesus in Matthew 26:11, a statement that’s often said to express fatalism about the problem of poverty. Biblical scholars say that interpretation misses the point, but you can’t deny its predictive value: Two thousand years later, the poor are still with us, and so they will remain for the foreseeable future. The same is true at the other end of the income distribution: The rich too are always with us. As with the poor, the question is what to do about th...