History furnishes us with many examples of catastrophes brought about, intentionally or otherwise, by the intervention of human beings, whose malice or arrogance prevented them from seeing or caring about the horrors they were committing. Though the sudden and systematic suspension of our natural and constitutional rights that has been perpetrated in the past yearContinue reading “An Overabundance of Caution”
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Living by Lies
Over the past year, the rights (and duties) of human beings in society have been suspended without warning, and partially parceled back according to the whims of bureaucratic despots, from WHO officials to the manager of the local chain store. We might ask what could possibly justify such drastic impositions upon human dignity and endangermentContinue reading “Living by Lies”
Wise and Unwise Utopias
In this 1973 essay, Irving Kristol explains how modern progressive ideologies exhibit a “kind of madness, which we familiarly call ‘utopianism.’” At the heart of any madness is a decisive disconnection from reality. In this case, the divorce occurs through a misunderstanding of the proper role of imagination. In classical thought, utopias are the resultContinue reading “Wise and Unwise Utopias”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 