When Libertarians get lost. I very much admired Reasonette Stephanie Slade’s recent take on the “postmodern right”, J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood, which, like the postmodern left, believes that “power” should be pursued and exercised without regard to any supposed “rules” or “laws” of morality or justice, which are merely hypocritical constructs that…
Tag: neoliberalism
Socio-Politico-Economic Notes from all over
Okay, this is going to be a bit of a data dump on your asses. I’ve been trying to put the finishing touches on a new novel, as well as goofing off a little, and I was compiling stuff that I was going to get to any time now, and, well, this is the result….
Cry sorrow, sorrow, but let the truth prevail
On November 8, 2016, in the wake of Donald Trump’s first triumph, I wrote “It is, appropriately enough, gray and wet in Washington, DC this morning. Brilliant sunshine would be almost more irony than one could bear.” Today, we are not so lucky. What I had to say in my earlier post, which bore the…
OMG! I’m turning into Larry Summers! But not all the time!
The truth can be ugly, can’t it? Here are, courtesy of frequent good guy yet employed by the American Enterprise Institute James Pethokoukis, a number of cogent (I think) charts to illustrate a recent cogent (I think) talk by Larry at the Peterson Institute for International Economics titled “What Should the 2023 Washington Consensus Be?”,…
Yeah, I flunked Econ 101! What’s your point?
As a matter of fact, I I didn’t flunk Econ 101, because I never took it! So what? To quote Mel Brooks, I’m an old man and I’ve got a right to talk. And, to quote another old man, Richard Nixon, “I am not an intellectual, but I do read books!” Well, I do and…
Neoliberalism and its discontents
Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote a contemptuous take down of Thomas Piketty’s then notorious book, Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. If anyone has been citing Piketty’s arguments in the current presidential primary season, I’ve yet to hear it, but that hardly matters, because global capitalism is taking a pounding from all quarters, a…