Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Starts with explaining how in the 1980s and 1990s, in elite schools (e.g. Harvard), there was a shift in focus from producing good corporate employees to the following:
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
At the Freedom School, Charles became particularly enamored of the work of two laissez-faire economists, the Austrian theorist Ludwig von Mises and his star pupil, Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian exile, who visited the Freedom School. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom had become an improbable best seller in 1944, after Reader’s Digest published a conde
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
Rather than standing athwart history yelling “stop,” as the postwar conservative William F. Buckley urged, or questioning the whole system of constant growth and military one-upsmanship that drove such roiling change, they formulated a model of human nature consistent with it.
Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
History had taught republicans to distrust luminaries.
Frederick Brown • For the Soul of France
Starting projects and embracing “theories of change” became de rigeur .