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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

Peoples & Things

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The Social Sciences' Critical Criticism of American Politics

There's a lot of similarity up to the 1960s, I would say, in that the critiques remain at this very, very high level of generality. They're very rarely attached to specific political programs except by this new right which has a kind of oppositional vision. On the other side, it's remarkable how many supporters of something like the welfare states are still extremely critical of what we've been doing.

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