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Left And Right United By Antipathy
- The left's consensus centers on complaints about markets while the right's consensus centers on complaints about the left.
- Bryan Caplan argues antipathy, not pure market preference, unites broad left and right coalitions.
Scholars' Left Bias Distorts Political Maps
- Political scientists skew left and often misread right-wing literature, producing false symmetry.
- Caplan says this bias leads scholars to assume typical right-wing views are pro-market when many are anti-market.
Use The Ideological Turing Test
- Pass the ideological Turing test: explain opponents' views so they can't tell if you wrote them.
- Use this neutral test to prove genuine understanding and improve debate quality.