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Wednesday 24 October 2012

When people rail about the cost of government entitlements, they’re thinking of social benefit programs like Medicare, not the price supports or the tax breaks that some economists call hidden entitlements. And what people call the culture of entitlement is elastic enough to include both the high school senior who’s been told he has a right to get into Harvard and the out-of-work plumber who isn’t bothering to look for a job because he knows his unemployment check is in the mail. But it rarely stretches to include the hedge-fund manager who makes a life model of Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark, who is the most conspicuous monster of entitlement in all of modern American literature. Geoff Nunberg

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