Wednesday, June 7, 2017

a very good and thoughtful article from Foreign Affairs: "The Liberal Order is Rigged: Fix It Now or Watch It Wither"




"The Liberal Order is Rigged: Fix It Now or Watch It Wither" 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-04-17/liberal-order-rigged

Among a few lines that I liked:

"...It is not bigotry to calibrate immigration levels to the ability of immigrants to assimilate and to society’s ability to adjust. "

Good paragraph; great (hilarious) last sentence:


"Like it or not, global populism has a clear, marketable ideology, defined by toughness, nationalism, and nativism: “America first” is a powerful slogan. To respond, proponents of an open liberal order must offer a similarly clear, coherent alternative, and it must address, rather than dismiss, the problems felt keenly by working classes. For Democrats, “the party of jobs” would be a better brand than “the party of increasing aggregate welfare while compensating the losers from trade.”

a very good and thoughtful article from Foreign Affairs: "The Liberal Order is Rigged: Fix It Now or Watch It Wither"

"The Liberal Order is Rigged: Fix It Now or Watch It Wither"  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-04-17/liber...