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@AmityShlaes

Classical Liberal. Chair, Coolidge Foundation, MI Hayek Prize. Author: Coolidge, Forgotten Man, Great Society, Forgotten Man/Graphic, Germany, Greedy Hand.

Plymouth Notch, Washington, NY
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Inscrit en octobre 2010
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  1. il y a 4 heures

    This is very interesting. But the Russian immigrants in Tel Aviv and the US didn't entirely copy "Dallas" (rent seekers, rent protectors, oil men)-- they also innovated.

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  2. 27 oct.

    In interior decorating as in classical music, motion, shifts and stimuli (eclectic style) cannot replace coherence.

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  3. 27 oct.

    Thank you New Haven independent for including...Great Society... on a quarantine reading list...

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  4. 26 oct.

    Glad to see Great Society on sale at Target!

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  5. 26 oct.

    President Coolidge voting in 1928 (for Hoover), with Mrs. Coolidge. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library

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  6. 26 oct.

    Overton's Window, the concept of a moving frame of what's politically acceptable (people or ideas), gets shifted all the time. Now shoved way the heck to the left. What moves window? K-16 Education, incrementally. RIP Joseph Overton of Mackinac Center.

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  7. 26 oct.

    "This constant use of consensus is a means of ending the discussion."

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  8. 25 oct.

    Thank you to Barton Swaim and Commentary for this kind rescue.

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  9. 25 oct.

    Forgotten Man honored to be cited in legal briefs...

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  10. 25 oct.

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  11. 24 oct.

    Next book topic? Thinking about it.

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  12. 24 oct.

    Great Society says thank you for the kind review.

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  13. 24 oct.

    One of the nicest comments I got this week was that I'm kind to my subjects, even when I rate their work wrong. That's right -- try to get in people's head, or shoes, or....

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  14. 24 oct.

    Looking back on decades of journalism, the only thing I regret is not wrong arguments, but attacks on people. Any. What you write, you live with, friends.

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  15. 22 oct.

    No empty (book) nests. Get ready to give away books, and banish them to the front hall. Go away and grow up, I tell them. They pile, and when I walk by, they cry at me....I order new shelves and the books stay home.

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  16. 21 oct.

    Who is the Forgotten Man? The man who pays, the man who prays, the man who is not thought of. --WG Sumner

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  17. 21 oct.

    Cries out like a baby for missing, forgone, commerce. Airport restaurant, half a year in.

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  18. 21 oct.

    How would have America reacted to covid in 1920, 1960 or 1970? Why do we react differently now (if we do)? Today: No memory of what life was like b4 antibiotics, more expectation of "safety"...your thoughts?

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  19. 20 oct.

    As Midge Decter has said: there comes a moment when you have to join the side you’re on. By the way, that would be Calvin Coolidge’s side.

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  20. 20 oct.

    --- Tom Hayden come to life again.. Researching Great Society, discovered 1960s student/activists didn't all materialize from nowhere; many were funded (Hayden, early) by the United Auto Workers. The union fell for Hayden type charm and was appalled by what it begat.

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