What Has Alcohol’s Existence Done to Humans?
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Question of the Week
Are humans better or worse off for having beer, wine, and spirits? Or, if you’d prefer introspection, how about you personally?
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Conversations of Note
Markets and the Good
The Hedgehog Review is running a thought-provoking symposium about our economic order:
Critics of neoliberalism charge that its emphasis on markets over all else progressively gutted vigorous democracy, replacing it with the rule of technocrats … However valid that critique, certain features of neoliberal thinking were, arguably, contributing factors in the three decades—, as the French called them—of widely shared prosperity that followed World War II. But with more fundamentalist neoliberals of the “Chicago
