:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Saturday, October 18, 2003 ::

John & Belle Have A Blog: Conservatism Considered: "My thought for the night about conservatism. I've been sort of mulling a long post, but it's really a simple idea: there is no way even to begin to conjoin so-called social or cultural conservatism and economic conservatism. Because the latter assumes that (economic) laissez faire is good: change will tend to be for the better. And the former assumes that (cultural) laissez faire is bad: change will tend to be for the worse. It would of course be possible to render these theses consistent by arguing that human beings tend to make good economic decisions but bad cultural or social ones. But it's a little hard to see how this could be made plausible."

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2003 10:00:00 PM [+] ::
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