By the way, Piketty is one of the lead leftist economists who advises the Left on economic and tax policy. His soak-the-rich book written with Emmanuel Saez endorsed tax rates as high as 83% and became an international sensation. It’s no doubt on the top of Zohran Mamdani’s reading list.

No matter how repeatedly wrong these celebrity “scholars” are, they are never laughed out of the faculty lounges.