Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
Tyler CowenI sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.
Tyler CowenEconomics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
Tyler CowenSocial systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.
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