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Gene Callahan on Rationalism in Politics

Gene Callaghan has an article in the Freeman (January, 2009 edition) that discusses Oakeshott’s critique of Rationalism in Politics and finds real-world support for it in the case of the 1950s-60s urban planning that gave many Western nations our crime-ridden high-rise ghettos.

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