Beyond Entitlement

by Lawrence M. Mead

Mead's timely and closely reasoned analysis makes a strong intellectual and moral case for a more authoritative welfare policy.

324 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

Reviews

[Clay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three stars for its historical detail. The arguments, however, are intellectually on par with what my grandmother parrots from Fox News pundits. Moral philosophers, your work here is done. What is the good life? Lawrence Mead has the answer: toiling for your capitalist overlords.

I don’t know if it’s deliberate obscurantism or simply shoddy thinking, but these conservative “intellectuals” seem constitutionally incapable of justifying their fetishization of work. Their arguments can be foiled with a 2nd grader’s rejoinder: “but why?”