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I DJ for Rick Rubin about music and patriotism

MUSIC EPISODE: “You think you understand patriotism, you have your hands around it–it’s the simple thing, but it turns out it’s not. And maybe, music and the history of music shows us all that better than mere discourse about it.” @tylercowen 0:00:00 Tyler Cowen 0:00:24 Intro: Patriotism in Music 0:03:09 John Philip Sousa & Stars […] The post I DJ for Rick Rubin about music and patriotism appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesDemocracy and CaeserismThat was then, this is nowMy...

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Democracy and Caeserism

In my 2015 post discussing Joseph Heath’s excellent book Enlightenment 2.0, I had this to say: One of the reasons that I oppose the extension of democratic politics into every aspect of modern life is precisely that in trying to do too much, democracy delivers incoherence, gridlock and frustration, forces that eventually undermine its own legitimacy. I […] The post Democracy and Caeserism appeared first on Marginal

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