By Calvin Trillin A wine-business friend points out that wine is way beyond any other subject in inspiring an urge to refute the notion of expertise.
What caught me in the Waldmann piece, however, was the brief discussion of the Pigou effect, which supposedly refuted the notion of a liquidity trap.
A report released earlier this year by the conservative Heritage Foundation went so far as to declare Lincoln a "hostage" of progressives, with the Gettysburg College historian Allen C. Guelzo indignantly refuting the notion of Lincoln as "the father of big government".
It's a redefinition of the tribalism that has dominated our political discourse in recent years, embracing humanity's tendency towards self-sorting but refuting the notion of a tribe as a closed system.
As another wine-business friend likes to point out, wine is way beyond any other subject in inspiring in the American layman an urge to refute the notion of expertise.
An urge to refute the notion of expertise certainly seemed to be reflected in the headline of an article from the Times of London about the research Brochet has been carrying on — "CHEEKY LITTLE TEST EXPOSES WINE 'EXPERTS' AS WEAK AND FLAT".
Although the satellite's transmissions were brief, they were also decisive and helped refute the notion of a "steady state" cosmology, previously proposed by Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold, in which the universe was deemed constant and infinite, with a continuous creation of new matter.
That is certainly the judgment of history: anyone undertaking to explain, defend, or refute the notion of internal sense after 1725 took himself to be explaining, defending, or refuting the principles of Dr. Hutcheson.
On Thursday morning, Trump tweeted that "no deal was made last night on DACA," putting Schumer and Pelosi in a bit of an awkward spot and consoling Republicans quick to refute the notion of Trump working with the Democrats on immigration.
