Friday, August 22, 2008

Friedman Institute: Just Say No

Marshall Sahlins:

Does the university expect us to "disappear" the memory of the Friedman-trained Chicago Boys, who supplied the economic programs for the draconian regimes of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and the generals in Argentina?

Of course, this is completely ridiculous and Sahlins is just giving ammunition to the likes of David Horowitz and the bowtie-wearing populists over at The New Criterion. Better to compromise a little than to give license to the culture warriors to nurse their absurd grievances. The truth is that they'd rather have the grievance than the Institute, so why give them what they really want?
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