Something odd is happening in Scandinavian politics. Or rather, something normal has stopped happening. Everybody knows that for the better part of a century, social democrats have been building Keynesian welfare states in Scandinavia. The news is that economic liberals (“liberals” in the classical, continental sense of the term) have basically ceased to attack them. […]
Ulrik Jørstad Gade
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The F Word
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias,” says Stephen Colbert. In turn, you might feel that the word “freedom” has a conservative bias. According to George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics and author of Whose Freedom?, that’s because conservatives have subtly but systematically changed the meaning of “freedom” to make it fit a radical right-wing agenda. […]