He may not appear to be a neoliberal at first (mor...

2009-06-23T10:38:56.904-04:00

He may not appear to be a neoliberal at first (more of a neocon), but remember that most neocons embrace neoliberalism as well.
Checker is over at the Hoover Institution. Below is their mission statement:

"This Institution supports the Constitution of the United States, its Bill of Rights and its method of representative government. Both our social and economic systems are based on private enterprise from which springs initiative and ingenuity.... Ours is a system where the Federal Government should undertake no governmental, social or economic action, except where local government, or the people, cannot undertake it for themselves.... The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not be, a mere library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution itself must constantly and dynamically point the road to peace, to personal freedom, and to the safeguards of the American system."

Notice the "safeguarding the American system," insistence on small government, and private enterprise. Education, at least in the world Checker inhabits, is an economic tool (neoliberalism in education). The neocons and Libertarians push the neoliberal ideology the hardest but the Democrats are promoting their fair share, especially these days (and Clinton in the 90's).

I wouldn't exactly call Checker Finn a neoliberal....

2009-06-22T13:57:48.665-04:00

I wouldn't exactly call Checker Finn a neoliberal...

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He may not appear to be a neoliberal at first (mor...

I wouldn't exactly call Checker Finn a neoliberal....