The ‘bobo’ look at Hume vs. Bentham in the USA

David Brooks has a decent look at PART (though not as big a part as he presents) about the current divide on how to solve healthcare and other American problems:

The polarizers on cable TV think it’s going to be a debate between socialism and free-market purism. But it’s really going to be a debate about how to promote innovation.

And, he squares off thumbnail sketch versions of Jeremy Bentham and David Hume for purposes of illustration.

I think there is a degree of truth, in that this reflects many conservatives' distrust of government accuracy as well as government size. But, it goes far beyond the Hume vs. Bentham angle.