I’ll be interviewing Ed on June 13, 6-8 p.m., GMU Arlington campus, including about his new and very interesting book The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Ed is also “chief American commentator” for The Financial Times, and author of one of the best general introductions to India, In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India. Here is Ed’s Wikipedia page. Here are event details.
What does he think about Brazil?
What does he mean by liberalism?
Exactly.
Can you have a liberal country without having the Miranda Warning, or the exclusionary rule, or a mixed-race/mixed-sex jury?
I find Ed Luce’s constant anti-Trump screeds in the FT to be particularly loathsome and nauseating. Why are you bothering with this guy?
Ed who?
A lucid point: I would ask Ed if he’s related to the famous magazine magnet (and not the ferrous kind) Henry Luce of Time Magazine? Given how relatively uncommon the last name of Luce seems to be, I say 30% chance of yes.
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That and why would I care what Ed Luce has to say about anything? I’m fairly sure it would be unadulterated, unleavened bunkum.
I think you meant to type “magnate.”
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Serious question. Why would anyone pay any attention at all to the likes of him since he seems to have gotten everything wrong? What is wrong about his worldview, his means of gathering information, his social and professional circle that causes this?
“Ideological world view mood affiliation”
I was listening to Russ Roberts interview of Tyler, and at the end he said something that brought this question to mind. The complacency of the elites in society is extremely dangerous.
I think that the media got it wrong because they were lazy. The various opponents of Brexit and Trump got it wrong because they couldn’t get off their individual or collective asses to try to sell the ideas they believed in. It is a sign of intellectual laziness to write off a good proportion of the population as deplorable. This applied to both Hillary and the Conservatives; it was amazing to watch Kevin Williamson agree with Hillary’s view of the electorate.
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Do excise taxes (soda, gasoline, alcohol, cigarette) increase the city or state crime rate? Do they increase Mexico’s crime rate?
What economic policies would simultaneously decrease the U.S. and Mexico’s crime rates?
Yes, the more money governments have the more crimes they can commit.
Mexico – government subsidized bus tickets to the US. The US free tickets to Canada.
A Christian-majority country is a country with separation of church and state, so a Muslim-majority country also has separation of church and state.
So which of the six Muslim-majority countries in Trump’s travel ban have separation of church and state?
Why do most democrats think Trump-voters voted for Trump rather than against Hillary? That is, why does he think that Trump-voters want his policies more than they fear Hillary’s policies?
If it’s wrong to charge people a fee to vote, why is it OK to charge them a fee to carry a gun in public? Is it because carrying a gun in public is more dangerous than Donald Trump?
Abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, social security, and the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act are all still the law. So how is America retreating from FDR liberalism?
Is the sex-offender registry consistent with liberalism? Or should people’s rights be completely restored upon release from prison?
How is banning “hate speech” consistent with liberalism? That is, how can R.A.V. v. St. Paul be reversed while still making sure that people can mock and criticize Islam and the prophet Mohammad?
Why can a private high school student be expelled for not wearing the school uniform to class, but can’t be expelled for having gay-anal-sex at home? Is it because “not wearing the school uniform” is more likely to transmit AIDS than gay-anal-sex?
On the contrary gay-anal sex has long been a tradition at most public schools in Britain. I know as a public school boy myself I was a highlight sought after bottom – but we didn’t do it at home, we did it right in the school. Why do you think they call them “A-levels” in Britain?
Of course when you grow up you need to marry a women and become a respectable cuckold like I am now.
Leave Dearieme alone. He’s consistently interesting whereas you didn’t complete your O-levels.
How long should author copyright last to maximize the economy? 50 years? 75? 120?
How much less CO2 would go into the air if we built high schools in the suburbs so all suburban kids could walk to and from school everyday?
Are countries with required military service, like Israel and South Korea, “liberal” in any sense of the word?
That is, does liberalism require that jury-service and military-service always be voluntary?
And Finland.
Why is it OK for the federal government to withhold highway funds until the states raise their drinking age to 21? Why is that not considered bribery?
Why do high school women have to get vaccines to go to class but don’t have to be on birth control? Is it because birth control doesn’t actually work? Or because it’s not safe? Or because parents don’t care if their daughters give birth before they graduate high school? Or does the 9th amendment protect the right not to be on birth-control, but not the right not to take vaccines?
What is contributing to MGTOW and WGTOW (men/women going their own way)? What could be done to reverse it? How is it affecting the economy?
Can “authoritative media” survive in the age of paywalls, internet and clickbait? In other words will publications like the FT survive that you can rely upon to take the “serious view” which includes fact checking, consideration of both sides of the argument, and investigation. Already I see the FT mining its reputation with things like FT Alphaville, where the credibility of the FT is being used up on often silly or trivial analysis. The temptation must be there for owners to do more like this on the margin, and less of the expensive serious stuff. But over time this is going to destroy the reputation of the paper.
I can’t decide if your brave or dumb asking for comments on the internet.
Since the topic of the book revolves around the demise of liberal democracy, does Ed feel as though the remedy is found in addressing a systemic flaw (i.e. 2 party dominance, gerrymandering, corporate media, exponential technological advances, growth-dependence, debt-burdens) or a societal flaw (i.e. greed, selfish motives, laziness, distraction, complacency)… If a combo, which is the independent variable? Why?
He doesn’t have to explain the combination of examples under each category of systemic or societal, but broadly in these categories, is like to contemplate the interplay between these forces. Is this the kind of analysis that will help define the antidote to preserve/improve Western democracy?