Richard Florida responds to my last post by referencing a 1948 essay by Anatole Broyard, “A Portrait of the Hipster,” via this article: Broyard was less enthusiastic about these supposed new rebels, and saw the attempts to escape from the restraints of society through narcotics, jazz, and general disaffiliation, as merely ways to a new conformity. [...]
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Peter Foster doesn’t seem to get it. In the National Post today he ridicules the ideas promoted by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in Nudge — or rather, he misinterprets the ideas by over-weighting the “paternalist” side of “libertarian paternalism,” using words like “interfering” and “over-intrusion.” The authors’ pretensions look even more ridiculous in the light of [...]
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