tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post115438173481486095..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: EmpiricismStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-78977712627374296692011-07-04T11:05:24.472-05:002011-07-04T11:05:24.472-05:00Many of your examples are themselves liberals who ...Many of your examples are themselves liberals who were swayed by the evidence they found. Although I suppose they are "exceptions that prove the rule".<br /><br />Coleman & Moynihan are both discussed in Timur Kuran's "Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification"/TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1154695333243657312006-08-04T07:42:00.000-05:002006-08-04T07:42:00.000-05:00The question isn't originally mine. It arose last...The question isn't originally mine. It arose last year because Jonathan Chait wrote an article claiming that liberals are more empirical than conservatives. (See <A HREF="http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2005/04/empiricism.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.)Stuart Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1154438831373881742006-08-01T08:27:00.000-05:002006-08-01T08:27:00.000-05:00It seems to me you are proving the opposite point-...It seems to me you are proving the opposite point--liberals are in fact more empirical; that is, more likely to follow the facts. Your examples here show that. Moynihan challenged the establishments facts and was unfairly vilified by those nutty liberals by being . . . elected to the US Senate! That's punishment? And all of these examples of irrational liberals are taken from a retrospective written by . . . another liberal. <BR/><BR/>Show me where conservatives are engaging in this kind of self-criticism. Jon Chait was correct about liberals being more likely to simply follow the evidence If health savings accounts and big tax cuts really would get better health care access to everyone and keep costs down, we liberals would happily advocate them. <BR/><BR/>If one the other hand, a single payor system were conclusively shown to be the best way to operate the health care system, conservatives would still oppose it for ideological reasons. <BR/><BR/>Thus: liberals are more empiricalRalphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00850347355885240369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1154390486168198532006-07-31T19:01:00.000-05:002006-07-31T19:01:00.000-05:00Don't forget all the "praise" heaped on Edward Ban...Don't forget all the "praise" heaped on Edward Banfield after he wrote a chapter titled "Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit" in his book "Unheavenly Cities." Liberals just loved that guy!Brian Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15555974621474285613noreply@blogger.com