Roger Nowosielski

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• 75 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XV

  The market is for Hayek the underlying mechanism, the venue, the invisible hand which miraculously transforms all the unenlightened and shortsighted individual decisions for the good of all.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on May 24, 2012

• 74 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XIV

  Cooperative communities based on mutual aid and cooperation, have been around since the beginning of time, and they’ve been known to be successful. Hayek’s inattention to this fact speaks volumes.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on May 17, 2012

• 73 François Hollande: A Modern-Day Napoleon?

  A message has been sent to the Anglo-Saxon establishment, the presumptive leader of the world economy, that all bets are off. Berlin, London and New York - all have been put on notice.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on May 09, 2012

• 72 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XIII

  In time, the state was forced to function, at least de jure if not de facto, as a guarantor of the rights of the new constituents: it had become what’s come to be known as the liberal state.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on May 09, 2012

• 71 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XII

  Hayek’s gravest error: the contrast of his brand of individualism with socialism or collectivism. It’s a totally modern conception, unheard of in Hobbes’s own time, and it displays Hayek’s modern bias.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 24, 2012

• 70 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part XI

  As far as I am concerned, one’s intellectual development cannot be complete without taking full account of a reasoned, conservative viewpoint, regardless of your personal viewpoint.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 21, 2012

• 69 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part X

  Liberalism isn’t a theory, in a manner of speaking. It’s a state of mind, a program by the feebleminded, all who have given up on hard thinking, an opiate.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 19, 2012

• 68 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part IX

  Hobbes was the first behaviorist in a manner of speaking, a thoroughly modern man. His ultimate aim was individual survival; and his ethic, a behaviorist ethic. And we still live under the specter.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 09, 2012

• 67 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part VIII

  At the bottom of the liberal theory, the one thing which provides it with its foundation, there lies a peculiar picture of a human, a human qua individual.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 07, 2012

• 66 Hobbes and Locke Revisited: The Foundations of the Modern Liberal State, Part VII

  It is the singular achievement of the liberal theory to have successfully merged both the political and the economic aspects of being into one indistinguishable whole.

  Opinion in Politics — by Roger Nowosielski — on Mar 03, 2012