Preserving a Vision–at the Expense of the Facts

Despite the warm glow of self-satisfaction that the liberal vision confers on liberals, ugly facts keep intruding to undermine that vision. Some liberals eventually jump ship and defect to conservatism when the facts keep piling up too high to ignore.* This takes...

The “Trickle Down” Left: Preserving a Vision

The New York Times of May 21 featured estimates of how much revenue the federal government is losing as a result of tax cuts, more than $50 billion over a five-year period. Meanwhile, a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal reported the government as receiving...

“Gloom and Doom” Media Hype: Preserving a Vision

Conservatives who point out the declining audience for the big television network newscasts, and declining public trust of the media in general, often under-estimate how much clout the liberal media still have. For example, while the economy has had near-record highs...

A Latticework of Mental Models

Excerpt from Chapter I of “Investing: The Last Liberal Art” by Robert G. Hagstrom In April 1994, at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California, students in Dr. Guilford Babcock’s Student Investment Seminar got a rare...

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