Posts classified under: Linda C. Raeder

On its face, the promotion of tolerance, like the promotion of multiculturalism, is unobjectionable and even praiseworthy. Multicultural tolerance, however, has little in common with the traditional Western virtue beyond a shared name.

Mill muddied the waters of classical-liberal philosophy by his conviction that the end of government is the “improvement of mankind” and not the preservation of individual liberty.

Why did Marx so move the world? Did he shed new light on the human story, plumb its mysteries to previously unsounded depths?

Augustine’s thought has ever held a deep attraction for the Western mind and has, of course, profoundly shaped the moral traditions that inform Western political culture.

Edmund Burke, the passionate defender of the "ancient principles"1 of his forebears, might be surprised to discover that he originated a…