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2016-08-2131 min
Feed 44 - The C4SS Podcast Channel“Cultural Libertarianism” on TrialIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach
Written by Daniel Pryor
Read by Katrina Haffner
Edited by Nick Ford
Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/39463
Excerpt:
"Overall, there is value in cultural libertarianism just as there is value in social justice activism. Both sides are guilty of hyperbole and fail to acknowledge their own camp’s malicious elements. Instead, they tar the entirety of the other side as the problem. The shared attitude amongst both movements is, to paraphrase Scott Alexander, that they can tolerate anything except the outgroup."
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2015-09-0906 minFeed 44 - The C4SS Podcast ChannelBorder Authoritarianism is Not Only an Institution of the Outwardly RacistIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach
Written by T.J. Scholl
Read by Thomas J. Webb
Edited by Nick Ford
Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/38961
"Anti-immigrant sentiment has found a home in political platforms across the nation and on both sides of the aisle. One such politician is Wisconsin Governor and 2016 Republican candidate Scott Walker. Walker is, like his peers, an absolute disaster in nearly every respect. In typical Republican form, Walker cries out that “government is too big” while simultaneously supporting “right-to-work” laws, bans on abortions after twenty weeks, and a massive federal immigration apparatus.
As detestable as some of...
2015-08-2105 minFeed 44 - The C4SS Podcast ChannelPolicy Research and the Limits of Statistical UtilitarianismIntro/Outro by Jeff Riggenbach
Written by David S. D'Amato
Read by Dylan Delikta
Edited by Nick Ford
Online article: https://c4ss.org/content/37948
Excerpt:
"As an example of misguided attempts to reduce complex systems to something “legible,” “simplified,” and therefore controllable, James C. Scott describes the “scientific forestry” efforts of 18th and 19th century Germany, instituted to be statistically optimal, to maximize timber yields. Expert bureaucrats increasingly thought that they could plan aspects of social and economic life using metrics that they mistook for legitimate science.
As Henry E. Lowood writes, “In the second half of the 18th century, few o...
2015-08-1812 min
The Libertarian TraditionJames C. Scott: The Art of Not Being GovernedIf Scott can excoriate most of his fellow historians for confounding "civilization" with "state-making," he himself can be excoriated for confounding statelessness with lack of government.
2010-11-3000 min