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“It’s a strange moment to have written a book where part of the argument is that things are changing less than you think,” said Ross Douthat ’02 on a sunny weekday afternoon in July. He was sitting on the back deck of his home in New Haven, Connecticut, overlooking a profusion of ocean-blue hydrangeas and the patchwork of his neighborhood’s backyards: swing sets, flower beds, trees, fences.
Like much of the country, the
New York Times columnist had been holed up for months with his family, ever since the pandemic cut short the tour for his most recent book,
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The Raven .the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
- Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show .What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven -F.A. Hayek -
The Road to Serfdom
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people,
In
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, author Robert Reilly makes the same mistake as many other conservative scholars: In his desire to win the argument, he sacrifices his audience.
He obviously intends to set the record straight about the American founding and address increasingly popular misunderstandings from both the progressive left and the traditionalist right that either see it as a power grab of white landowners or the beginnings of an amoral, relativistic modernist society. Reilly stakes his claim the American founding was a continuation of the constitutionalist, natural law tradition of which all Americans can be proud.
and why liberalism failed and how democracy died. the former president doing some deep thoughts. what stuck out for you, tammy? he has made a tradition of this, he s done this every year. i think for a lot of people these lists can be virtues signaling. like look at what i m doing. or, i ll look at what you should be reading. a lot of people on the list especially with the music are friends of the obama so you can t blame them for that, i suppose. but i think that when i grew up, a favorite teacher of mine said that, while it s great to read for pleasure and important to do so and, to read to reinforce or expand your understanding of your own point of view, it s particularly important to read things that you know you will disagree with so that you hear other arguments. and you can also refine your own point of view. may be on that, ben rhodes,
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