Aspiring for a developed India

A commentator (call him X since he did not disclose his identity) wrote:
Consider India, which is a developing nation with majority of its population still below the poverty line. If we aspire for a developed India, every Indian must be educated . It is only by (good quality and free) Government schools one can achieve complete [...]

Moderation

Via Bill Brown at The New Clarion, I came across this piece by David Brooks. The piece begins with
You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We [...]

Political systems and success

In a comment on my previous post “History is not the case against collectivism”, Mark asked
I also just realized, that a system/ideal can be judged from a moral standpoint separately from a history: then is it possible for an ideology that is inferior from a moral standpoint to actually succeed in history?
The question is important enough [...]

History is not the case against collectivism

In an analysis of a newspaper article by David Brooks on China and collectivism, Mark writes
When we consider criticisms of Collectivism, we almost automatically associate it with the past experiences of Communism, Socialism, and Fascism, and how the societies based on these collectivist systems we’ve seen have either failed or stagnated.
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Taleb calls history a fallacy [...]

In worship of “I”

The Times of India asks “Is the first person pronoun sacred? Or should it be in the lower case, as it has appeared on our editorial page for the past few months?” and prints an article titled “Me, Myself and I“
“Why do we capitalise the word “I”? There’s no grammatical reason for doing so… (some uninteresting [...]

A Confession of Collectivism

In a guest article in The Times of India, New York Times columnist David Brooks writes1
“The world can be divided in many ways — rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian — but one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality … You can [...]