The Free Market 14, no. 5 (May 1996) The dialectic goes like this. First, an artist—I use the term broadly—exhibits something pornographic, blasphemous, or otherwise egregiously offensive. His opus may well be an action, as when an HIV-positive “performance artist” had his back cut open before a surprised audience in Minneapolis. Next, the
The Free Market 14, no. 9 (September 1996) In a state-funded education system, bad ideas live longer than they would in a free market. That’s the best explanation for the staying power of the two opposing errors of our time: nihilism and pseudo-omniscience in the social sciences. Nihilism comes in the form of postmodernism, a pretentious body of
The Culture Taboo Mises Review 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996) “BLOC BUSTERS” Virginia I. Postrel Reason , Volume 27, No. 9 (February 1996): 4, 6. Virginia Postrel gets a lot of mileage from an elementary fallacy. She begins her piece, a plea for Republicans to stress the free market rather than cultural issues, in an odd way. She throws up her hands in
[Publicado originalmente en The Free Market 14, nº 9 (septiembre de 1996)] En un sistema educativo financiado por el estado, las malas ideas viven más tiempo que en un mercado libre. Esa es la mejor explicación para la capacidad de permanencia de los dos errores opuestos de nuestro tiempo: el nihilismo y la casi omnisciencia en las ciencias
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