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Robert J. Barro

Robert J. Barro

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Robert J. Barro is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is co-author (with Rachel M. McCleary) of The Wealth of Religions: The Political Economy of Believing and Belonging.

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    Liberation

    Jeffrey D. Sachs

    Throughout America’s history, the bigotry that fueled Donald Trump’s rise to power has never been far from the surface. Trump’s departure is an opportunity for a new beginning, not only in the deeply-wounded United States, but in multiethnic societies everywhere. 

     warns that the sense of liberation many people now feel won't endure without a historical and moral reckoning.
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