The Welfare State Is Democracy Itself

The American “Make America Great Again” movement calls itself “conservative,” and those who support it here at home use the same terminology. Norwegian conservatives are not as far removed from the mainstream of society as those of us who don’t listen to podcasts and sleep with duct tape over our mouths might like to believe. One of several signs of this is the reception of Martin Bech Holte’s book The Country That Became Too Rich earlier this y…