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Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan

The day after International Women’s Day in March 2015, I attended a Clinton Foundation production put on by its No Ceilings initiative at the Best Buy Theater in New York City. It wasn’t a campaign event — the 2016 race had not really started at that point — nor was it a panel discussion, as there were no disagreements among the participants or questions from the audience. Instead, it was a choreographed presentation of various findings having to do with women’s standing in the world. But if you paid attention, the event provided a way to understand Hillary Clinton’s real views on…

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wrote the Easy Chair column for Harper’s Magazine from 2010 to 2014. This is an excerpt from his new book Listen, Liberal (Metropolitan Books).

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