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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
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The Straussian Moment
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By the eighteenth century, a new ideology was taking form, especially in Britain, that “greed is good” (to use a recent summary formulation), because greed spurs a society’s efforts and inventiveness. By giving vent to greed, the logic goes, societies can best harness the insatiable ambitions, great energies and ingenuity of their citizens. While
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
fallacy that it takes Supermen to forge super teams.
Stanley McChrystal • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
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We have the illusion that the world functions thanks to programmed design, university research, and bureaucratic funding, but there is compelling—very compelling—evidence to show that this is an illusion, the illusion I call lecturing birds how to fly. Technology is the result of antifragility, exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering and... See more