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Thursday, April 26, 2018
The impact of free markets
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In 1965-6 I took Economics 1, as it was then called, at Harvard. The course probably represented the best education that the GI generation ...
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Friday, April 20, 2018
Is our democracy dying?
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This week I have gone through the book, How Democracies Die , by the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. I picked it o...
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Friday, April 13, 2018
The Return of Anti-Intelletualism in American Life
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Richard Hofstadter was probably the greatest historian of the GI generation, although his early death from leukemia in 1970, at the age of 5...
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Friday, April 06, 2018
Trump's real German analog, part II
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It was very early in the Trump Administration, I believe, that I had occasion to note the similarities between Trump and a famous German lea...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018
No Way Out?
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I do not think that many informed people would disagree that the United States and the whole world are in a deep crisis. At home we have a ...
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