Today, we live in a world in which many, or even most, people no longer have a sense that there is a permanent moral order to the universe. More than that, many have come to regard the traditions of moral practice that were so central to the ancient worldview as too inhibiting—they get in the way of maximum individual freedom. As MacIntyre put it... See more

When New York turned its lonely eyes to John Gotti, it was longing for another kind of authority than the type Giuliani had represented up to that point. It didn’t really want the law, universalism, meritocracy, rationality, bureaucracy, good government, reform, blind justice, and all that bullshit. The institutions had failed, the welfare state

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What’s puzzling, given how carefully people toe their respective party lines, is that there is no minister of propaganda nor a ministry of truth enforcing any explicit stances. We expect this degree of ideological conformity to be the product of a centralized power handing out punishments and rewards. But, as far as I know, there is no single... See more