{"id":1146,"date":"2011-01-26T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2011-02-27T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T18:43:55","slug":"the-conflicting-visions-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/26\/the-conflicting-visions-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conflicting Visions of The Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1987, Thomas Sowell produced his classic book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/article\/23586\" target=\"_blank\">A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0  Describing the dichotomy of the \u201cconstrained\u201d and the \u201cunconstrained\u201d  worldviews, Sowell\u2019s sweeping insight explains how two broad camps in  the electorate come about, with correspondingly different views of the  role of government.<\/p>\n<p>This conflict was laid bare for all to see in last night\u2019s State of The  Union address from President Barack Obama, and the GOP Response  delivered by Obama\u2019s ideological archnemesis, Congressman Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/01\/26\/the-conflicting-visions-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes Opinions&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1987, Thomas Sowell produced his classic book \u201cA Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Describing the dichotomy of the \u201cconstrained\u201d and the \u201cunconstrained\u201d worldviews, Sowell\u2019s sweeping insight explains how two broad camps in the electorate come about, with correspondingly different views of the role of government. This conflict was laid bare for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/civilsocietytrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}