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He's going with Amber? |
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he ignores every other girl. |
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So what is “liberalism” today? Is it a mere grab-bag of miscellaneous policy preferences, or some coherent thing, with an intelligible cause and purpose? |
In an ambitious project, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W.J. Rorabaugh aim to answer these questions. In their book, Takeover: How the Left’s Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism, the authors argue that contemporary liberalism represents an coherent political project that was launched in the 1960s by the ... |
As the title of their work suggests, Critchlow and Rorabaugh contend that both the methods and the ends of the New Progressives can be properly called a “takeover.” The authors relate the successful efforts of young liberals to take over the Democratic Party, the public schools, the legal system, and urban communities... |
Critchlow and Rorabaugh argue persuasively that the New Progressives have consciously aimed to transcend the old liberal project. The goal has been not merely to complete the work of securing federal rights to education, healthcare, etc., but also to achieve more far-reaching goals, including extensive environmental p... |
Indeed, as the authors explain, in some respects, the goals of new progressivism are not supplemental, but adverse, to those of the old. This opposition is most salient in the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection. The old progressives generally welcomed capitalistic economic growth and sought... |
Nonetheless, the book has significant flaws. In several respects, Critchlow and Rorabaugh overstate what they call the “sharp break” between the older and new liberalisms. Most notably, the authors fail to acknowledge that New Progressives relied on transformative principles already introduced by the old. Central to... |
Consider, for instance, Roosevelt’s commentary on the Declaration of Independence in a prominent campaign speech: |
In grossly misrepresenting the actual Declaration, Roosevelt here prescribed a continuous redefinition of rights. Circa 1932, history’s agenda demanded the contraction of individual property rights in favor a new set of positive rights, including the right to minimum prices, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, heal... |
The astonishing novelty of the old progressive project is manifest not only in their general principles but also in some of their policy prescriptions. And in some ways, these policies were more radical than those of contemporary liberals. For example, the National Industrial Recovery Act authorized the President to ... |
Relative to the old progressives, the New Progressives were not really new. They merely accepted, albeit impatiently, the old progressives’ standing invitation to redefine rights. |
Far from resisting the next redefinition, the old progressives not only abetted, but enthusiastically aided, the establishment of the new rights. Most notably, in 1964, Lyndon Johnson proposed a “Great Society,” where government would secure more than the mere bodily goods of liberty and material security (including t... |
The old progressives lent decisive support to the new in other areas as well. For example, as the authors themselves note, the population-control movement owed its success less to young activism than to the institutions and money of the old progressive establishment: the Population Council, Planned Parenthood, the For... |
Conversely, as the authors do acknowledge, the New Progressives did not abandon the old policy agenda. Arguably the most important priority of President Obama’s first term was the long-deferred progressive dream of national governmental healthcare. The authors themselves devote a whole chapter to the topic. More bro... |
While overstating the break between old and new progressivism, Critchlow and Rorabaugh understate this break in two respects. First, nowhere do the authors mention the sexual revolution, which has informed so much of the modern progressive agenda, including the asserted rights to abortion, same-sex marriage, subsidize... |
Second, the authors largely overlook the New Progressives’ rejection of the older progressives’ muscular nationalism. Until the 1960s, liberals were unabashedly patriotic at home, and championed the projection of American diplomatic and military power abroad. Yet nearly all New Progressives opposed militarism, especi... |
These two omissions may result from what is perhaps the main flaw in Critchlow and Rorabaugh’s conclusion: the characterization of the New Progressive project as “statist” or “big government.” These terms simply do not reflect how progressives, whether old or new, understand themselves. It would be far more accurate... |
According to this theory, government should not be big or small, but should be tailored and re-tailored to fit the size and scope of the most recent redefinition of rights. If, for instance, the new right is the freedom of the pacific, expressive, and erotic self—one who made love but not war (nor too much money)—then... |
Similarly the new sexual freedom did not demand “statism” simpliciter. First and foremost, this liberty required less government, e.g., legalization of pornography, nonmarital sex (perhaps including prostitution), and abortion. But conversely, this freedom has arguably mandated more government, viz., to ensure that w... |
In truth, the New Progressives, like their predecessors, have advocated not “statism” or “big government,” but “indefinite government.” For good or for bad, the success of the New Progressives means government, over the next several decades, will likely expand and contract—in ways that even the New Progressives themse... |
Still, as Critchlow and Rorabaugh conclude, the rights championed by progressivism, both old and new, have generated enormous, unsustainable costs. These costs will, in turn, impose stern limits to future progressive projects. So while in the twentieth century, History seemingly conquered natural rights, in the twen... |
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"It was times like these when I thought my father, |
who hated guns and had never been to any wars, |
was the bravest man who ever lived." |
-- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird |
I don't normally talk about poker "experts" as it's not a very good way to describe how to be a winning poker player. In poker you just need to create edges over opponents, so one player with less card skills could win more money if that player has better game selection, for example. And thus different circumstances ma... |
I previously wrote about how like the movie To Kill a Mockingbird a complete poker player needs to bring together many solid, quality assets to their overall game, so they can thusly create a greater a masterpiece of a poker career. |
That is the big picture. But let's look at the little picture. The individual moments of poker playing. |
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As I mention in the Mockingbird article, the American Film Institute named Gregory Peck's character the #1 film hero of the first 100 years of film. Not Luke Skywalker or James Bond, but Atticus Finch is the #1 alpha male of the movies. Now think about that in light of the Harper Lee quote at the beginning of this arti... |
Poker ExpertsAnd that is what poker is: a series of individually very difficult choices. Game selection, bankroll management, tell-reading, what to do with JJ if reraised, inducing a bluff when you have the nuts, value-betting nut low and a pair of sevens in Pot Limit Omaha High Low, managing sleep time during multi-da... |
Despite that, you still have to make the decisions. You have to have skills to handle a little bit of everything. That is what sets apart dominant, expert players from limited players who can sometimes do well, and from the cannon fodder who barely think before acting. The flaw that afflicts most incomplete players is ... |
So, "experts" are not necessarily the "best" at anything at all. Expert players make the most informed decisions as they can at any moment, and have given prior thought to what they may be facing. There are entire levels to the game that most players don't consider, but there is also a dominant sense of purpose that sh... |
Expert players excel in the circumstances they are in. They excel in preparation, and they excel in adaptation. They are experts in reading opponents, and experts in making themselves difficult to read. They are expert at taking advantage of the multiple weaknesses of their particular opponents. Expert poker players ar... |
The alpha male and female poker players are expert at being experts. |
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