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Funny, a lot of left wingers would say Economist has a neo-liberal (right wing) bias. It seems the Overton window has shifted the right so far to the extreme th
by cromwellian 7y ago
Funny, a lot of left wingers would say Economist has a neo-liberal (right wing) bias. It seems the Overton window has shifted the right so far to the extreme that someone like Milton Friedman would probably be considered left wing.
- luckylion 7y agoDoubtful. It's just that the left-right-axis isn't that helpful these days. You can be socially progressive but financially conservative.
- ptah 7y agoyes, this is evident from claims that hillary clinton is a leftist when she is closer to maggie thatcher
- rbanffy 7y agoOr that Bernie Sanders is a socialist...
- baud147258 7y agoPerhaps they have different bias, depending on the subject? (I don't know, I haven't opened one since leaving school)
- dagw 7y agoI think they'd argue that they have a consistently liberal "bias" in all subjects, it's just they don't map cleanly onto modern left-right politics. For example they favor deregulation and privatization which are traditional "right wing" stances, while also favoring gay marriage and drug legalization which is an issues that has recently been more championed by the left. The Economist would argue that their stance in both issues is "liberal" thus there being no contradiction.
- baud147258 7y agoThank you. From the two comments above, I guessed it was something like this
- repolfx 7y agoThey used to. Since Zanny Minton-Beddoes took over it's basically the British version of the NYT but in magazine form.