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“Despite the fact that the New Deal was a failure, it remains the gold standard in liberal policy making.”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Doctors make no such exceptions to the Hippocratic Oath—save, of course, when it comes to abortion—and only then when another dogmatic obsession trumps their oath. Alas,”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Hayek, more than anyone else, illuminated the knowledge problem. Simply put: No one person can ever know enough. Planners who think they can process all of the data from disparate sources across vast expanses of geography and culture are, quite simply, educated fools.”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Taken on its own terms, pragmatism’s folly is that it separates intelligence from wisdom. Its greatest sins are arrogance and deceit, including self-deceit. It is arrogant because it assumes the individual—particularly the expert—can know everything he needs to know without reference to received wisdom,”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Head Start, among the holiest of social programs, has never worked, and each time this unwelcome fact presents itself it is greeted as proof that the program simply requires more money.”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
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