Will Wilkinson has gotten a lot of Internet love for his article “ Thinking Clearly About Economic Inequality ,” which argues that increasing inequality is not as bad as people like Paul Krugman make it out to be. I thought it was a rhetorically clever but deeply misleading attempt to blur the obvious issue – economic inequality is increasing – by looking at it through a dizzying array of qualifying lenses. Wilkinson marshals an impressive number of arguments to try to make the point that incr