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Nicholas Eberstadt
Men Without Work
Templeton Press, 2016, 2022
Nicholas Eberstadt is a mainstream conservative who holds a position at the American Enterprise Institute. He has written an outstanding book on the crisis of men who are not employed. This unemployment crisis doesn’t consist of those men who have been laid off or are between jobs and looking for work. (more…)
Ted Kaczynski outside his Montana cabin in 1972.
Ted Kaczynski outside his Montana cabin in 1972.
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Rich Houck: There’s also other parts I find a small problem with. Ted Kaczynski seems to think that without these modern technologies, people cannot be controlled or subverted or treated poorly, but it seems to me that throughout history that’s not been the case. He talked about some of these movements. He mentioned Communism and Nazism in in the same line, as mass movements, but it seems to me that even if we can imagine a society where there’s no modern technology, you could still have a group of people come that is hostile to your interests for various reasons. (more…)