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Encyclopedia > The American Enterprise

The American Enterprise is a conservative magazine that primarily rails against those whose viewpoints differ from theirs. Its columns rarely present statistics. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Statistics is a type of data analysis which practice includes the planning, summarizing, and interpreting of observations of a system possibly followed by predicting or forecasting of future events based on a mathematical model of the system being observed. ...


In the issue "Red America, Blue Europe", the column "Europe learns the wrong lessons]" by [Karl Zinsmeister] it oversimplifies European analysis of America as dangerous as "bigotry", sees lack of democracy in Europe but fails to see it in America, where there are Americans that do. It fails to make a distinction between modern Europeans and Europeans of old, and engages in the same practices that it illustrates Europeans conducting in. This page relates to the use of the word bigot to refer to a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own. ...


Examples: Cited German diplomat: "The gulag was better than Guantanamo, since at least the Stalinist system offered its victims a trial of sorts"


The American Enterprise: "Name one thing the old continental European powers have done to help stabilize Iraq."


Economics

The American Enterprise holds the idea commonly held in America that economic growth is of utmost importance. Through this lens, Europe's lack of economic growth means that they have learned the wrong lessons. Accumulated GDP growth for various countries. ...


Europe has less of an military, so less of its GDP is tied up by the military.


In "Europe's Not Working" by Olaf Gersemann, a quote by Princeton economist Paul Krugman is cited that acknowleges Europe's lack of importance placed on economic growth, but it is merely used as a [straw man] to knock down to support the author's arguement that Europe is severely underemployed in comparison to the United States. The United States unemployment is stated as "close to full employment, whereas Europe's unemployment is stated as "millions". Neither is a representation of unemployment as a percentage of population. Princeton is the name of several places in the United States of America: Princeton, Florida Princeton, Illinois Princeton, Indiana Princeton, Iowa Princeton, Kansas Princeton, Kentucky Princeton, Louisiana Princeton, Maine Princeton, Massachusetts Princeton, Minnesota Princeton, Missouri Princeton, New Jersey Princeton, North Carolina Princeton, South Carolina Princeton, Texas Princeton, West Virginia Princeton... An economist is someone who studies Economics. ... In economics, full employment has more than one meaning. ...


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