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The Welfare State and the Meaning of Life

The Welfare State and the Meaning of Life - Greg Forster

In response to Charles Murray's 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture, it is here argued that only a moral perspective can oppose socialism while affirming legitimate state functions

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