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The devolution of the contrarian class


The devolution of the contrarian class - The Washington Post

These self-styled contrarians claim to be pushing against a suffocating liberal orthodoxy. Mostly, however, they seem to be telling on ...

Daniel W. Drezner on X: "Just gonna re-up this for no reason in ...

Just gonna re-up this for no reason in particular. washingtonpost.com. Perspective | The devolution of the contrarian class. Being contrarian for contrarian's ...

R.I.P., Liberal Contrarianism - Democracy Journal

As the age of the liberal contrarian reaches maturity in mid-decade, Andrew Sullivan is hawking The Bell Curve at The New Republic, by then known as “even the ...

The Upside of Being a Contrarian - Articles - Advisor Perspectives

Harness contrarian perspectives in a discerning manner – don't be contrarian just for the sake of it.

The Contrarian review - inside the strange world of PayPal founder ...

This is a book about the aphrodisiac effect of wealth and in particular about the reality distortion field that surrounds people who possess it.

Are Strong Parties the Answer? - Journal of Democracy

Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro begin Responsible Parties with a warning: “This is a contrarian book” (p. ix). In some ways, it is. The authors argue ...

Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History (Ep. 128)

Taylor loved the paradox. He loved to be the contrarian. His Origins of the Second World War is still a masterpiece of polemical writing. The ...

devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka

The uneasy relationship between constitutionalism and the transgressive proclivity of democratic politics is no sign of democratic immaturity.

Unfinished Business? - New Left Review

favouring the emergence of a homogenized 'governing class ... territory by devolution and agitation for independence. ... figuring mock-heroic role of contrarian.

Samuel Johnson: A Guide for the Perplexed Undergraduate

... contrarian—but not, of course, merely eccentric. Although he was eminently clubbable and did not relish being alone for too long a stretch ...

The Art of Being a Contrarian | Science of Running

There was a constant ebb and flow of popular theories. The all-interval crew would take precedence and then the higher mileage method would come ...

What is a contrarian value you have that society opposes ... - Quora

A contrarian value is a belief or principle that goes against the mainstream or dominant cultural or social norms. It is an idea that challenges ...

Peter Thiel's plan to become CEO of America - Niskanen Center

Namely, it highlights the successes while ignoring the many failed states and other experiments in less-than-benevolent dictators, as well the ...

An Island Divided: Next Steps for Troubled Cyprus | Crisis Group

Turkish Cypriot administrators, however, would like the committees to be able to make decisions and take quick action, which of course requires ...

10. Federal political culture - Elgaronline

One way to finish the class is to have a group activity where students answer five survey questions from quantitative studies on federal political culture. For ...

A Contrarian Education | Peter Salovey, 23rd President of Yale ...

President Levin, Provost Hamilton, colleagues who have joined us on the stage today, families, and members of the Class of 2012: I am ...

“Power to the Neighborhoods!” - New York City Growth Politics ...

... class consciousness as such and workers are thus incapable of organizing ... the devolution issue against all odds. His next attempt, in 1972, resulted ...

Unmasking Colloquialism: A Contrarian Examination of Language in ...

In this way, colloquial language is not a devolution but an evolution ... Learning Unleashed: a Contrarian Approach to Preschool Classroom Layouts.

Reflections on St. John's College: The Conservative Contrarian

Conservatism, then, is in some ways contrarian, in the sense that it seeks to know—beyond convention —the true order of things, rather than ...

Anti-Environmentalism: Prometheans, Contrarians and Beyond

Beyond initial charges that environmentalism was primarily a preoccupa- tion of the middle classes in common with neo-. Classical economists a good deal of ...