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Month: March 2020

“the economy and the structure of work are not the way they used to be. This has had devastating effects on the family and on community life”

29 March 2020 Drew KaplanAmerica

For the first few decades after the Second World War, per-capita U.S. economic growth averaged between two and three per cent a year. In the nineties, however, it dipped below two per cent. In the[…]

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“We Americans are reluctant to acknowledge that our economy serves the educated classes and penalizes the rest”

29 March 2020 Drew KaplanAmerica

When it comes to people whose lives aren’t going well, American culture is a harsh judge: if you can’t find enough work, if your wages are too low, if you can’t be counted on to[…]

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“…there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our perceptions and our decisions…”

6 March 2020 Drew KaplanPolitics in America

I think there are ultimately four characteristics in candidates that I think drive our perceptions and our decisions: competence (can this person do this job); policies (does this person have clear prescriptions to deal with[…]

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“we would often be better off worrying about what the appendages in legislatures and localities are doing than about what some ultimate head is thinking”

1 March 2020 Drew KaplanPolitics

This idea of power simply emanating downward still animates apologetics for authoritarianism, but it also leads to excitement about top-down health-care programs that everyone knows will never be enacted by executive fiat. It inspires, too,[…]

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“…liberalism has, to an unusual degree, been defined by what it wasn’t”

1 March 2020 Drew KaplanEurope

…liberalism has, to an unusual degree, been defined by what it wasn’t. For French liberals in the early nineteenth century, it was a defense against the excesses of Jacobins and ultra-monarchists. For the free-trading Manchester[…]

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