Brink Lindsey
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Brink Lindsey is an American political writer and lawyer.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: AB, Princeton; JD, Harvard Law School (opens wiqqi.app)
- Niskanen Center: Vice president; director of the Open Society Project (opens wiqqi.app)
- Cato Institute: Vice president for research; director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies, 1998 to 2004; editor of Cato Unbound (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Today's political crises stem from the problems of mass affluence, which liberalism made possible. (opens korrents.com)
“From my perspective, the problems underlying our political crises are problems of mass affluence, which itself is a world-historical triumph of the first order made possible by liberal values and institutions.”
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Today's discontents are not a failure of liberalism's basic principles. (opens korrents.com)
“Our contemporary ills, however, do not represent some deep-seated failure in the basic principles of liberalism that has now finally manifested itself.”
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Liberal values and institutions are our best chance for meeting today's challenges. (opens korrents.com)
“liberal values and institutions represent our best chance for rising to contemporary challenges, just as they guided us to triumph over those traditional ills.”
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Today's political crises stem from the problems of mass affluence, which liberalism made possible. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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On Liberty (opens rcmnd.app)
“But the reason I selected him is that there is a brief passage in On Liberty (in the second chapter on defending liberty of thought and discussion) where he lays forth what I think is the best concise explanation for…”
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The Constitution of Liberty (opens rcmnd.app)
“So, by the time he was writing The Constitution of Liberty in 1960 he was already very much identified as one of American conservatism’s leading intellectual lights and he was rather uncomfortable with that.”
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Atlas Shrugged (opens rcmnd.app)
“Chambers wrote a savage review of Atlas Shrugged in the National Review, ending with that quote ‘From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: “To a gas chamber –…”
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On Liberty (opens rcmnd.app)