…population.) The sum of those positions stands for a corporatist philosophy of benefitting the oligarchy and their business enterprises at the expense of everyday Americans who work for a living….
…the ideals of Friedrich Hayek are. This is odd, as each man attached himself to a polar opposite political philosophy: Keynes’s ideas were adopted by idealistic lefties, while Hayek’s thoughts…
…her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try…
…Wilson in “Economic Fallacies and Labour Utopias” (1871) cited “the enforcement of all sorts of arbitrary restrictions on the combined workmen” attributable to a “Unionist reading of the Wage-fund theory.”…
…really about neo-federalism. Neo-federalism is the conservative legal philosophy that holds (among other things) that the federal government’s two-pronged powers—the right to legislate and the right to require that state…
Robert Waldmann Matthew Yglesias discusses the financial crisis and the idea of causation. He shows that he was a philosophy major. I’m delighted. The question is whether the answer to…
Credit should go to conservatives like Andrew Samwick who object to Bush’s free lunch philosophy: If we can handle it now, why weren’t we handling it before? Why does rebuilding…
…the further we move. You agree we should be finding out your philosophy and method of legal reasoning, modesty, stability, but when we try to find out what modesty and…
Hitting the Nail on Its Head Slate’s Michael Kinsley on the administration’s philosophy (hint: it’s not actually compassionate conservatism): So, to sum up: Talk loudly. Carry a big stick anyway….
…the place where the word “memes” was coined. Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. The most important book I’ve read in decades. Philosophy meets science…