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cato-unbound.org - 29 days ago
How an Engineering Culture Launched Modernity
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In the first reply to Stephen Davies' lead essay, Jack Goldstone argues that modernity was launched when "elites developed a new 'engineering culture'" that departed sharply from European tradition. In order to gain from the commercial application of new knowledge by private entrepeneurs, ...
dailykos.com - 30 days ago
Engineering defeat
— dailykos.com — Here's a new video montage we put together showing how Fox's coverage of the special election in... New York's 23rd Congressional District empowered Republican teabaggers to push aside moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava in favor of a hard-line ... (more) Engineering defeat

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Hit & Run — ... with a revision and synthesis of several classical liberal theories about the issue; his essay has attracted a friendly critique from Jack Goldstone, one of the scholars whose work Davies drew on and revised, and some more scathing ...

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