Saturday, September 1, 2012

"The Way . . . Is Surely To Think Non-Ideologically"

Timothy Snyder, here:


The way to national prosperity in the twenty-first century is surely to think non-ideologically, to recognize that politics is a choice among constraints and goods rather than a story about a single good that would triumph if only evil people would allow it to function without constraints. The market works very well for some things, the government is desperately needed for others, and stories that dismiss either one are nothing more than ideology.