A major theme of Fools is that the New Left evolved a set of intellectual tactical moves against their opponents. These included creating a false left-right spectrum, delegitimizing other points of view, indicting capitalism and tradition for all wrongs while being vague about alternatives, and using Newspeak to present authoritarianism as a defense of freedom and human rights.
Read the whole review, and I recommend the entire book.
“Also, it may explain why President Obama has seemed to govern more by unilateral executive action than by negotiation with Congress.”
Don’t get me wrong, but I’d like anyone to explain why George W Bush or Trump is actually worse than Obama?
Because he seems calmer while he is shredding The Constitution, institutions, and customs of rule of law? Is that it David Brooks?
Maybe in some speculative future Trump won’t negotiate, the thing he claims to be good at, and in some hypothetical past Bush would have done what Obama did do, not get support. But in reality-based terms, how is Obama, or the lady that lost to Obama, or the admitted Socialist objectively worse than Trump?
I get an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT when I try the link in this post. I’ve been getting that error for some months now whenever I try the blog at econlog.econlib.org.
Is anyone else having the same problem?
It’s all very depressing, if you ask me, that people like Zizek are taken seriously.
The book also contains a fantastic discussion about the difference between law (emergent) and legislation (top down), drawing heavily on Hayek, Smith, and Burk. Those several pages alone were worth the purchase price of the book.