That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
Arnold KlingThe gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.
Arnold KlingI believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.
Arnold KlingAfter over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.
Arnold KlingThe prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.
Arnold KlingI am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.
Arnold Kling