Hooray for a Faith-Based Foreign Policy (No, Really)
Jason Kuznicki on Jan 28th 2005
Robert Wright has a must-read op-ed in the New York Times today. The thesis:
Oddly, the underlying problem is that this Republican president doesn’t appreciate free markets. Mr. Bush doesn’t see how capitalism helps drive history toward freedom via an algorithm that for all we know is divinely designed and is in any event awesomely elegant. Namely: Capitalism’s pre-eminence as a wealth generator means that every tyrant has to either embrace free markets or fall slowly into economic oblivion; but for markets to work, citizens need access to information technology and the freedom to use it - and that means having political power.
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