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On en trouve une expression particulièrement aboutie dans un livre de William Riker, Liberalism Against Populism, qui pourrait avantageusement figurer dans notre panthéon des antipopulistes s’il n’avait été publié bien plus tard, en 1982, et s’il n’était la mise en œuvre d’une autre approche scientiste dans les sciences sociales : la théorie du cho

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

The measure that gave Marshall the authority to circumvent it was concealed as a rider to the Army’s annual appropriation bill.32

Bryan Caplan has proposed a national “Voter Achievement Exam.” Each year (or maybe before an election) the government offers a voluntary test which covers basic political information and basic social scientific matters. Citizens who take the exam get a cash prize, pays a thousand dollars for getting 90–100 percent of the questions right, five hundr

THE SOUTHERN MANIFESTO and Herbert Brownell’s civil rights bill menaced—from opposite sides—Lyndon Johnson’s master plan. Manifesto and bill both threatened to add kindling to the civil rights issue on Capitol Hill. Johnson’s strategy for winning his party’s presidential nomination—to hold his southern support while antagonizing northern liberals a