Lord Acton Archives - Possibly Correct https://possiblycorrect.com/tag/lord-acton/ Possibly Correct Media Network Thu, 03 Feb 2022 02:32:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/possiblycorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-PC_LOGO.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lord Acton Archives - Possibly Correct https://possiblycorrect.com/tag/lord-acton/ 32 32 194854143 #24 Does Power Corrupt? https://possiblycorrect.com/podcast/24-does-power-corrupt/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 02:32:00 +0000 https://possiblycorrect.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1639 Lord Acton said, “absolute power corrupts absolutely” but is this accurate? Abuses of social and political power are the ones we worry about the most. Social science data does seem too, on the surface, bare out Lord Acton’s claims. However, if you correlate the degrees of corruption with degrees of centralization the data suggests things are not quite so simple.

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