Chris Navin

May 8, 2008

Anne Applebaum in The NY Sun: Medvedev

Filed under: Uncategorized — chr1 @ 10:55 am

Full post here.

Her opinion:  No rule of law.  No real capitalism.  No independent political parties.

Is Medvedev even a legitimate leader?

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Via Althouse: Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals

Filed under: Current Events, Politics, Public Debate — chr1 @ 9:48 am

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Why? 

“Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives,” the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, “apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light.”

Of course the pursuit of equality is an idealogy…

…oh wait…this is psychological science.

A knock-off of David Sloan Wilson’s research?

See AlsoA Sympathetic View Of Noam Chomsky? What if Chomsky were a Burkean conservative?  Would that in any way follow from his linguistic/philosophical contributions?

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