August 13, 2020
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Western Society and Cultural Elites: A Review of Return of the Strong Gods
by David Westfall
…e “openness” that it advocates it is “a managed, orchestrated, and finally compelled openness” (91, emph. mine). According to Reno, this consensus is well-established, at least in practice, among liberals and conservatives alike. Whether through interventionist economics and the ministrations of “social technologists” (e.g. Karl Popper, Arthur Schlesinger) or through the autonomous self-regulation of the free market itself (e.g. Friedrich Hayek, M…
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