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Politics & Society
– Lies have long legs: they are ahead of their time. The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power, a process that truth itself cannot escape if it is not to be annihilated by power, not only suppresses truth as in earlier despotic orders, but has attacked the very heart of the […]
Lately — especially in the Moderate Party (Moderaterna) and the Liberal Party (Liberalerna) — there has been a push for the euro based on the argument that global economic uncertainties make smaller currencies like the Swedish krona more vulnerable. Facing increased volatility, the euro is said to be a safer alternative. This, however, sounds rather […]
. Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance. Sapere aude! “Have the courage to use […]
I ett av kapitlen diskuterar Waldenström också om en alldeles för stor förmögenhetskoncentration kan utgöra ett hot mot demokratin. Många — som sett vad exempelvis Elon Musk uträttat på sistone — skulle nog vilja hävda att hotet är påtagligt. Så icke Waldenström, som mer eller mindre viftar bort problemet och i stället hävdar att det […]
. Trump’s tariffs are thought to protect U.S. industries and workers, but they mostly backfire by raising costs, inviting retaliation, and failing to boost jobs or reduce trade gaps. Tariffs act like a tax on the economy, and although tariffs may protect some industries, there are usually high general costs in terms of accelerating inflation […]