Is There a Government Limitation on Markets?

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I've always considered the difference between my liberalism and that of someone like hi, of me being a less liberal, an him being a classical liberal. So dunp refers to itas galetarian liberal versus a lese far a liberal. There are historical examples of when a try excessive state control has resulted in a complete collapse and starvation. And so we humans who are living in a liberal society will really just have to keep arguing forever about how to balance er this er, what the regulation of markets?

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?

In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.