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A leftist intellectual gives you his definition of freedom

Revisado: 12-14-24

Very simplistic attempt to rewrite common sense. Neo liberals like our founding fathers defined freedom as freedom from government because government was the ultimate source of evil in human history. This book defines freedom as a welfare check. It claims that those who don't do as well as others in a free market don't have the freedom to buy a big house, to travel ,to send their kids to Ivy League schools etc so the government needs to step in with a variety of welfare checks so that everyone is equally free.

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just a Chronicle of events and times.

Revisado: 10-19-24

this book is just a history book. It is filled with a chronology of events and times, but no concepts about history as implied in the title. The title is designed to sell books, but the book itself is simply a very long and boring history book.

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Socialism for the poor?

Revisado: 09-05-23

If you want a book that comes up with 1001 new welfare programs to help the poor this is the book for you. The poor should never help themselves as long as the rich can help the poor.

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Too biased to be meaningful

Revisado: 03-08-23

Chomsky is too self -assured. He starts out with socialist communist assumptions in his head and never for a second addresses Republican conservative libertarian assumptions. Accordingly he does not advance the argument at all.

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Seemed extremely repetitive

Revisado: 04-03-21

I saw the author on TV for 15 minutes and was very intrigued but I learned almost nothing more from reading the book. His theory is that people who are highly educated and disciplined from birth forward do extreme well and are responsible for much of modern inquality. Somehow he figures we would be better off if our best and brightest were impeded . He closes like a typical left wing Ivy League professor with a Marxist quote that he does not identify as a Marxist quote : "workers of the world unite".

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The most important thing about Krugman...

Revisado: 10-04-20

is that he is a socialistic. He makes his case with a very high IQ, infinite detail , and total absence of conceptual thinking. I have never once heard a conservative or libertarian say that Krugman made them socialistic too. This is because he does not address that issue in the slightest. He can tell you in infinite detail why he thinks Paul Ryan‘s budget numbers don’t add up but he can’t say one word about why freedom and liberty from liberal govt is unimportant. And that makes him virtually useless to read. He proceeds exclusively and totally on the totally blind assumption that freedom and liberty don’t matter when they are the founding principles of what is perhaps the greatest country in human history.

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