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Ayn Rand — the forebear of zombie neoliberalism

Ayn Rand — the forebear of zombie neoliberalism Rand’s novels promised to liberate the reader from everything that he had been taught was right and good. She invited her readers to rejoice in cruelty. Her heroes were superior beings certain of their superiority. They claimed their right to triumph by destroying those who were not as smart, creative, productive, ambitious, physically perfect, selfish, and ruthless as they were. Duggan calls the mood of the...

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Ayn Rand — a perverted psychopath

Ayn Rand — a perverted psychopath  [embedded content] Now, I don’t care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country … Since the Indians did not have the concept of...

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Jerzy Sarnecki och Brå om brott och härkomst

Jerzy Sarnecki och Brå om brott och härkomst Brå har i dagarna kommit ut med en rapport om kopplingen mellan den stora migrantströmmen 2015 och den efterföljande ökningen av rapporterade sexbrott. Slutsatsen av de övergripande tentativa analyserna och osäkra skattningarna blir att sambandet är “svagt”. Detta hindrar dock inte Jerzy Sarnecki från att i DN påstå att studien ”visar att invandringsvågen inte har påverkat antalet sexualbrott”. Vilket ju är minst...

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Agnes Heller über Universalismus und Republikanismus

Agnes Heller über Universalismus und Republikanismus Die Aufklärung zu beerben dürfe nicht heißen, nur die Idee der universellen Menschenrechte politisch umzusetzen. Die Französische Revolution habe doch ebenso die Tradition der droits du citoyen, der Staatsbürgerrechte, hervorgebracht, und dies beides müsse heute politisch verwoben werden: Universalismus und Republikanismus. Wer diesen Widerspruch nicht überwinde, lasse Europa untergehen. Die Solidarität...

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