(MENAFN – Jordan Times) On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah’s new book “The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It” and Milton and Rose Director Friedman’s classic “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”. Considering them together, my overwhelming thought is that the Friedmans would find their task of justifying and advocating small-government libertarianism much harder today than they did in 1979. Back then, the Friedmans made three powerful factual claims about how the world works – claims that seemed true or maybe true or at least arguably true at the time, but that now seem to be pretty clearly false Continue reading →