Word: paternalisme
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We are just as averse to paternalism as we have always been, and this announcement disturbed us when we first heard it. However, after considering the reasoning behind the move, we have to acknowledge that this is the right decision.
The U.S. has a sordid history of self-righteous paternalism, and its policy towards Cuba is no exception. Our longstanding trade embargo against our Communist neighbors to the south is a prime example of our formalized policy of starving people whose dictators we don't like. We have assumed, but...
We are supposed to support the billions spent on imprisoning the largest number of women in the world because prisons ensure public safety. But 70 percent of the women in prison are non-violent offenders and only a minuscule percentage are really a threat to public safety. Ninety percent have...
The Republicans' problem is the lack of a coherent, unifying agenda. The G.O.P. was founded on a bedrock philosophy in 1854: maximum individual liberty supported by a protective but not paternalistic government. Policies that flowed from this philosophy--from abolition to antitotalitarianism to rational distribution of wealth--united the party...
In a sense Henry Ford became a prisoner of his own success. He turned on some of his best and brightest when they launched design changes or plans he had not approved. On one level you have to admire his paternalism. He was so worried that his workers would go...