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Bennett could further advance the debate if he would write and talk as explicitly in public as he does in private about the danger of corporate conservatism's worship of "the market" above older conservative values such as family, community and country. It's what Daniel Bell famously described as...
But such brakes have no place in liberal dogma. The classically liberal take on human nature is that there is no such thing: we are blank slates, innocent at birth; it is only society--capitalism, in the standard indictment--that corrupts us. Thus, Lerner claims, people get divorced because they...
The novels have been called Dickensian, largely on the basis of the first one, which is jammed with plot and characters and ends with the cliff-hanger of Annelies' legal kidnapping. But as the series continues, Minke's adventures--he becomes a journalist and publishes a successful newspaper in opposition...
"We've been trapped between the twin evils of capitalism and communism," she said. "Communism collapsed because it was undemocratic. Now we are gradually discovering that capitalism is also undemocratic. Most are realizing that capitalism and democracy are no longer compatible if they ever were."
"I consider myself a social democrat," Song explains. "Given that the specter of communism has been quashed but also that capitalism isn't isn't disappearing any time soon, what can we do to make this place more equal for all?"