Taking Stock of Money in Politics: The Powell Memo Fifty Years Later
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Powell's Reversal of the American Enterprise System
Powell cites incidents of violence towards certain businesses, which was happening in the early seventies. He puts blame for this kind of new criticism or opposition to the enterprise system on academia and intellectuals. But again, rather than discussing the reasons behind it, he blames it repeatedly on the media. And so naturally, a reversal, of course, is simply the obvious, natural course of action.
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