• • Edward Conard says what Mitt Romney won't 
Michael Kinsley, MSN Money Capitalism  | The people at the New York Times Magazine must think that nobody has ever read Ayn Rand, or maybe even Adam Smith. Their cover story on Sunday -- misleadingly titled “Are the Rich Worth a Damn?” -- reports breathlessly that there is this fellow named Edward Conard who believes in free-market capitalism and is willing to fill a gap in the argument we’ve been having about growing income inequality. Until now there hasn’t been anyone, or at least anyone still alive, willing to say publicly that what the U.S. needs is more inequality, not less.   Published: 2012-05-10