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Ben Cuan • 1 card
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The democratic party apparatus is largely run by lawyers with JDs. The politicians, many of the staffers, most of the non profit executives, and many of the thinkiest think tankers have JDs. It is central to law education in the US that policy legitimacy is derived from the process that creates the policy, there is no focus on outcomes. Its ... See more
Big-Ass Truck Abundance
Rothbard brings to the New Right a contempt for the establishment and elites in general, it is from Pat Buchanan that the New Right gets its global perspective. Buchanan’s Death of the West is indeed a seminal text for the New Right
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
I showed how this moral matrix leads liberals to make two points that are (in my opinion) profoundly important for the health of a society: (1) governments can and should restrain corporate superorganisms, and (2) some big problems really can be solved by regulation. I explained how libertarians (who sacralize liberty) and social conservatives (who
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Room G-18 was an ideal place in which to kill an issue quietly; behind its closed doors there was no voice to keep the issue alive. As a result, the Democratic Party now appeared far more unified than it had in the recent past, but the unity was a unity that was, for the first time, imposed by the Democratic Leader. The transformation of the Policy
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
From 1984 to 2020, every single Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominee went to law school, but they make up many Republican Party elites as well as the top ranks of the civil service too. By contrast, only two American presidents worked as engineers: Herbert Hoover, who built a fortune in mining, and Jimmy Carter, who served as an en
... See moreDan Wang • Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
ANDREW J. BACEVICH,
Andrew J. Bacevich • American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
According to the papers, he had unwittingly committed the cardinal sin of being pale, male and stale. None of the above seemed likely to change in the immediate future.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
During his second year in the House, he wrote—himself, with no staff assistance—a bill embodying the old People’s Party dream of intensified government regulation of railroads, by giving the government authority over the issuance of new securities by the railroads. Happening, by chance, to see the bill, Louis D. Brandeis, then one of President Wils
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