Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists respond to President Obama’s declaration that inequality is the major issue of our time and the pope’s apparent agreement.

Are there pros and cons to inequality? Rich Lowry says inequality is inherent to a free society. Scheer disagrees. And Matt Miller mediates. Then the panelists present one another with gifts of appreciation. 

— Adapted from KCRW by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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