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What We Can Learn from Rioting in Sweden

Redistribution may be necessary. It may be good. But it is not enough.

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Rioting in Sweden is the sort of phrase that sounds as if it should be oxymoronic, like "Evil in Candyland" or "Violence among Episcopalians". And indeed, the rioting seems rather tame by American or British standards—cars set ablaze, stones hurled at first responders.

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