The Danger of Too Much Safety

September 1, 2018
The authors quote the progressive activist Van Jones giving the perfect response to those who want to maintain a fugitive and cloistered virtue by not listening: "I don’t want you to be safe."
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Shylock’s Conversion

September 8, 2017
The thesis of this essay is simply stated: The Merchant of Venice is a Christian play and a comedy that…
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Condorcet and the Logic of Technocracy

September 8, 2017
From Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre in the eighteenth century through such twentieth-century critics as Lewis Mumford, Karl Popper, and Isaiah Berlin, the utopian concept of a rationally planned or dirigiste society is viewed as one of reason’s most nightmarish monsters.
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