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“That’s why liberals are constantly discovering new crises that require more government solutions.”
― 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
“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
“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
“social gospel minister Walter Rauschenbusch proclaimed that if God couldn’t be a liberal progressive then we needed a new god entirely.”
― 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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