Economics has become a totalizing system claiming the power to explain all things. It is as much a religious system—by another name—as is Berry’s Great Economy.
August 2010
A report from the heartland.
It is generally the case, near as I can tell, that women were created mainly to keep men from enjoying themselves too much over the cigars.
Next time your kids ask you to tell them a scary story, show them this slide show. Only I imagine this one will be keeping the parents awake at night.…
“It enabled us to create our own vision for the future. That was the way I look at it then and now.” I guess part of that “vision” was Tammany Hall.
It is time to reopen the questions about human nature, about human autonomy, about the desirability self-creation. Liberals should, in brief, broaden their horizons to ponder competing views of human flourishing.
