CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
These new statists included economists who adopted the
"organic" collectivism of the German historical school, soci–
ologists and historians who interpreted Darwin according to
the social ideas of Hegel, clergymen who interpreted Jesus
according to the moral ideas of Kant, single-taxers who fol–
lowed Edward Bellamy, revolutionaries who followed Marx
and Engles (sic!), "humanitarians" who followed Comete
(sic!) and later John Stuart Mill, pragmatists who followed
William James and the early John Dewey.
In his book-
THE OMINOUS PARALLELS- The End
oj
Free–
dom in AmenCa-Peikoff
explains how these "reform" move–
ments-and their descendants-created the intellectual and
political climate that turned America into the most regulated
and controlled "free enterprise" nation on earth....
To
the
editors:
press release from
The Betsy Nolan Group, Inc., Public Relations
Two Cheers for Equality
The omission of two words in the printing of my review of
Equalities
by Douglas Rae et al. ("A Grammar of Equality,"
TNR, May 12) had the effect of making me contradict myself
about the coherence and usefulness of the notion of equality.
The sentence in the middle that begins, "The whole idea of
equality is a mess ... ," should read, "The whole idea of
equality of opportunity is a mess .... " This is, of course,
quite consistent with my conclusion that equality itself is a
reasonably straightforward idea with much to commend
it.
Brian Barry
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
The
New
Republic
June 23, 1982
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