Democratic Individuality

In Democratic Individuality, I argued that at a high level of abstraction, modern conservatives, liberals and radicals believe that the best economic, social and political institutions foster each person’s individuality. Their differences are largely empirical or social theoretical. All clash with modern authoritarians. I will take up practical issues such as torture and the lineage of the neocons and link them to larger issues in how we conceive a decent regime, locally and internationally.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Poem: 1937

My father works

beside his student

intently

on a pool

they are economists

first Keynsians

so little work

dig ging together

the idea of the poor

put to work

in their hand s