“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”—Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Archives for August 2000
Internationalism and American Exceptionalism
Various commentators have written about the growing influence that Corporate America has assumed over U. S. foreign policy, particularly trade policy, in the Clinton Administration. It has been noted that foreign policy formulation under Clinton has been as much dictated by the Commerce Department as by the State Department. A good question, recently posed by […]
Truth and Consequences
“Truth is something outside yourself, something to be discovered, and not something you can make up as you go along.”—George Orwell, 1944.“There are no facts.”—Michael Foucault, 1968 The two quotes above illustrate both the wide divergence of views of truth that have come to prevail and the drift in the conception of truth from the […]
The Inevitability of Marketization
A couple of months ago, I was struck by a notice in the Wall Street Journal that fourteen leaders of industrialized countries signed The Berlin Conference communiqué titled “Progressive Governance in the 21st Century”. Among other center-left aphorisms, it states that globalization “should not just be allowed to happen” and that there should be a […]