Bryan Appleyard worries about Italy's new technocratic government:
I am all for intellectuals but their big problem is that they have ideas. This is fine if you are prepared to abandon them when the world proves them wrong, as it always will, but disastrous if you cling to them because you feel they must be true. Intellectuals, perhaps because they suffer from science-envy, find it hard to grasp that something can be true one minute and false the next.
Greg Scoblete, on the other hand, focuses on the power of financial institutions.
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