2:00PM Water Cooler 11/8/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Common Nightingale (golzii), Ile River Delta–Zheltorangy Poplars; Almaty, Kazakhstan. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles Capitol Seizure Hmm: A person is disqualified from […]
Conservatism and Historical Empiricism – Econlib
In my previous post, I introduced Yoram Hazony’s project in his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. What, to Hazony, separates true conservatism from Enlightenment liberalism, and why is the former superior to the latter? To answer this, Hazony looks to the writings of major conservative thinkers in centuries past, such as John Fortescue, Richard Hooker, […]
