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Le propos général consiste à affirmer que les « réformes populaires n’ont ni révolutionné ni restauré quoi que ce soit. Elles n’ont eu qu’un effet marginal sur la conduite du gouvernement américain64 ». En première analyse, la réforme est donc inutile. L’idée qu’une société ou ses institutions puissent être modifiées volontairement est absurde, pre
... See moreAntoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)
this so-called factual description might have made sense back in the days of Locke, Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
The American Pageant were often used in “advanced placement”
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me
axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)

George Stigler, a thirty-five-year-old economist at the University of Minnesota. Inflation had diluted the 40-cent minimum wage, and people were calling for an increase to 60 or even 75 cents an hour, which translates to $9.51 and $11.88 in June 2022 dollars. “Economists have not been very outspoken on this type of legislation,” Stigler wrote. “It
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Jonathan Wolff • Ethics and Public Policy
This explains why so much outrage in the public square is now directed at what one might call speech crimes. Even the neologism hate speech speaks to this. While earlier generations might have seen damage to body or property as the most serious categories of crime, a highly psychologized era will accord increasing importance to words as means of op
... See moreCarl R. Trueman • The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences,” he wrote, “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”