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...Schumpeter’s diagnosis of capitalism’s ills missed the mark, yet his remarks on the academy’s disdain for entrepreneurs were dead on. From the Trotskyite editors of the Partisan Review to Lawrence H. Summers’ recent detractors, self-styled intellectuals and academics have long bristled at market principles. For them, admiration for entrepreneurship is no more than vulgar hero worship, straight from an Ayn Rand novel...
...could go to your readers and they would stand up and denounce you, then you really have something.”FUTURE IMPERFECTDespite all the attention the journal has received, a future of longevity is certainly not written in the stars. Even legendary publications such as The Partisan Review have recently become defunct as a result of the death of founders and a lack of funds.“The current print run of n+1 is around 7,000 copies per issue,” says Alexandra Heifetz, the business manager of the magazine. This number, though seemingly small...
...News’ well-known byline is: “We Report. You decide.” The report from Fox is clear. And so is the Democrats’ decision: they should stop willfully giving Fox fodder for its partisan machine...
...Nevada Democrats have realized is that Fox is beyond being a “Republican” news channel. Fox doesn’t just hire journalists with conservative ideology. Instead, it employs partisan mouthpieces. CNN might be perceived as liberal but its reporters don’t have a comparable track record of blatant inaccuracy. If Fox wants to correct what it perceives as a liberal bias in the media, fine. But muddying the public discourse with falsehood and provocative rhetoric is a disservice...
...bold enough to tell the truth will find an audience ready for bold solutions. The answers to the problems of our democracy lie in more democracy, not less. If we had public financing of federal political campaigns and if congressional district lines were drawn by citizens' commissions instead of partisan state legislatures, we would have less polarized politics. And if we moved Election Day from Tuesday (I'll bet you can't tell me why it's on Tuesday!) to the two-day weekend, our voter turnout would exceed its current ranking of 139th in the world. Certainly...