Sublime

I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the self-

Ce chapitre s’intéresse à un épisode particulier et peu connu, celui du rôle joué par les intellectuels néolibéraux pour faire échouer l’Organisation internationale du commerce, l’institution qui devait compléter le système de Bretton Woods, ainsi que dans la rédaction des premiers projets, après la guerre, d’une loi internationale sur les investis

Ce relativisme moral post-moderne atteint un sommet dans les années 1980. À ce moment-là, des philosophes se mettent alors à déterrer Aristote et remettent au goût du jour cette croyance selon laquelle certains modes de vie sont simplement meilleurs que d’autres et que le rôle (et même le devoir) de l’État est d’encourager l’épanouissement des cito

his relatively free-market policies allowed Chile to flourish financially and become the leader in South America by several economic indicators.

When Red Mike Hylan swept into City Hall—Mitchel, who had been elected in 1913 by the largest plurality in New York’s history, was turned out in 1917 by an even larger plurality—Progressivism in the city was dead.

A few examples include: Greed is good. Maximizing pleasure from consumption is the goal. A billion acts of selfishness will lead to a prosperous society. The social duty of business is just to maximize its profits. There’s no such thing as society, only individuals—that was Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote. Markets are efficient; other institutions

See Tim Keller’s accessible and incredibly helpful overview of Alasdair MacIntyre’s book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? in the article “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory,” Life in the Gospel. Dr. Keller, you are deeply missed.