Journalist, pundit, and scholar, Michael Barone is the senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, a frequent commentator on Fox News, and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Barone is also the principal author and editor of a book that has been published every two years for the past four decades: the indispensable Almanac of American Politics. In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Barone and forty years of American politics.
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Michael Barone
Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S. News and World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics.
November 2012 may be an inflection point. However the period from the summer of 2014 to 2032 should usher in a period of technological and economic prosperity. Who and what ideas will lead the way or get infront of the wave?
What policy and politics is family friendly and individual friendly?
If we can avoid mob rule and protect the rights of people from the tyranny of the mob majority we should live long and prosper.
Who is to blame for this "institutionalization" of the so called "sexual revolution"? Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst, who "returned to Freud" in an era when everyone was trying to convince everybody to get it the easy way, to "adapt to reality", to live according to "free enterprise & American way of life" (today we could say "Wall Street way of life"), cautioned in 1973 ("Television") analysts and of course "mental health" (if there is such a thing) workers:
"Si j'ai parle d'ennui, voire de morosite, a propos de l'abord "divin" de l'amour, comment meconnaitre que ces deux affects se denoncent --de propos, voire d'actes--chez les jeunes qui se vouent a des rapports sans repression--le plus fort etant que les analystes dont ainsi ils se motivent leur opposent bouche pincee."
"If I spoke of boredom, even moroseness, about the love-approach of so called "divine" love, how may I disregard that these two affects appear - in words, even in acts - among youngsters who devote themselves to sex without repression - the most stunning being the fact that the analysts who motivate them, these youngsters, simply react with embarrassment."