Word: misguidedness
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Free-Market Man Ben Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is anachronistic now...
Haunting and passionate, Virtue is a disturbing read. With the benefit of hindsight Chayes makes it clear that many of Afghanistan's current problems have their roots in these misguided postwar policy decisions. As a result, warlords, drug smugglers and human-rights offenders crept back into power-the same forces...
Today, the Presnyakov brothers' Yekaterinburg theater no longer exists, and their hometown doesn't seem to be aware of their world fame. The brothers shrug it off. They launched their theater, they say, when many people were traumatized by misguided reforms that suddenly wrenched their lives out of joint. The...
Time noted that Senator James Inhofe has called global-warming science a "hoax." Given a choice of hoaxes, I'll take Gore's humanitarian crusade over the Bush Administration's misguided "war on terror" any day. CARLOS O. SANTACRUZ Doral, Fla.
Ben Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is surely anachronistic now. Even Adam...