The NYTimes other resident idiot (Douthat) focused today's nonsense column on the Pope. The column itself was devoid of substance, but it did have one controversial assertion:
Finally, it’s true that there is no Catholic position on, say, the correct marginal tax rate, and that Catholics are not obliged to heed the pope when he suggests that global inequality is increasing when the statistical evidence suggests otherwise. He links to an AEI blog that references this paper that discusses the decline in "between country" inequality.But there is, as usual, a significant flaw in how the AEI and Douthat use the evidence presented in the paper. Skip past the flaky, orange pastry for my reasoning...