“Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'” NeedsPersonsTwoAsksSocialCenturyClaimsRationalRacistIdeologicalAnthropologyNineteenth Century Book:For Reasons Of State Source: For Reasons Of State
“I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.” HumansHas BeensEarthSocialHoursCenturyMaterialsSourceLiberationElectricity20th CenturyProliferationInexpensive Author:Ross McKitrick
“Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes - his chief intellectual rival of the century - in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments.” WayMindGovernmentAgeSocialCenturyPolicyBattleIntellectualScientistDiedFundamentalsChiefsMarchEconomistRivalsTwentieth Century1930sHayekKeynesFriedrich Hayek Author:Julian Simon
“The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.” UseNationsSocialChallengesPovertyEconomicConditionsCenturyBuildingStandardsOilDevelopingConspiracySaddamServitudeBuilding Up Author:Saddam Hussein
“It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel. I think that even though I didn't live in Italy in those years, it did cover that same type of generational upbringing that someone like me might've had in America.” ThinkingWayYearsTwoStoriesMightAmericaYoungSocialPoorNovelGrowing UpGrowingCenturyTypeHistoricalLike MeNeighborhoodYoung Women20th CenturyUpbringingNaplesPoor Neighborhoods Author:Ann Goldstein
“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.” WayStillsWholeLastsOrderForceSocialInfluenceMiddleEffectsCenturyProduceSmartPhilosopherRealmsMainstreamCountenanceMental PowerPhysical Force Author:David Papineau