NYT: Brat’s Theory of Protestant Work Ethic Has a “Surprisingly Distinguished History”
9th July 2014
Steve Sailer takes note.
One of the biggest buttresses of the current ideological regime, broadly defined, is the widespread assumption that dissenters, even tenured economics professor David Brat (victor over former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor), can’t be very smart.
This appeals especially to people who don’t seem exceptionally smart themselves.
One of the funnier example of this phenomenon is the urge, which I’ve noted before, to cite Brat’s work on Max Weber’s theory of the Protestant Work Ethic as evidence that Brat isn’t smart (at least not by the high standards of Members of the House and spergy economists).