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Book review: How to fix the system

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By Steven Poole Verified
| Taipei Times Verified
By Steven Poole / The Guardian Add TT as Preferred Source In 2009, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel published an essay with the portentous title The Education of a Libertarian, in which he announced: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Since the 1920s, he wrote, “the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women” had rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” an oxymoron.
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What happened to liberal democracy? by Daron Acemoğlu review – how to fix the system

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By Steven Poole Verified
| MSN UK Verified
In 2009, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel published an essay with the portentous title The Education of a Libertarian, in which he announced: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Since the 1920s, he wrote, “the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women” had rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” an oxymoron.
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On the Mark by Florence Hazrat review – a fascinating history of punctuation

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By Steven Poole Verified
| Yahoo Style Canada Verified
A warning sign in the four official languages of Singapore: English, Chinese, Bahasa Melayu and Tamil.Photograph: John Seaton Callahan/Getty Images (Photograph: John Seaton Callahan/Getty Images) How do you feel about exclamation marks? Otherwise known as gaspers, screamers, dog’s cocks, or shrieks. In his Modern English Usage, Fowler said that using too many betrays an “uneducated or unpractised writer”. Martin Amis called them “joke badges”, and Theodor Adorno “soundless cymbal-crashing”.
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