On Earth Day (which was Sunday – keep up) the inchoately titled Free Market America … er, foundation, released a video entitled, “If I wanted America to fail” in which they tackle […]
Democracy & Elitism 4: equality, opportunity and leveling up the playing field
Part 4 in a series. Pulitzer- and Emmy-winner William Henry‘s famous polemic, In Defense of Elitism (1994), argues that societies can be ranked along a spectrum with “egalitarianism” on one end and “elitism” […]
Nota Bene #92: Echoblowcation
A few things for you NB readers:
Why isn't Rush happy?: Limbaugh inadvertently illustrates democracy in action
America’s democratic ideal doesn’t work perfectly. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all, and in these cases it feeds our cynicism to the point where we’re tempted to conclude that the very possibility […]
Free the markets
. . .or, why can’t we be more like the savage socialists across the pond? Marion Nestle recently pointed out that in Europe food must be labeled as containing GMO’s. The system […]
Jon & Kate: a sign of the times to come
If you’ve been off-planet for the last few months you may have missed the news: Jon & Kate have split, and in the process migrated from the relative banality of the TV […]
Conservatives call for re-regulation of "free" market
On Friday, EJ Dionne of the Washington Post noted something that I’d noticed earlier in the week, namely that conservatives who should be calling for less regulation and freer markets were in […]
Libertarianism doesn't work – but it's still useful
I’ve been searching for a reason why I like libertarians even as they drive me round-the-bend out of my mind sometimes. And on Saturday, Michael Kinsley of the Washington Post provided me […]
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