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Time, March 26, 2006
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
This is the work of politics—understood as the ordering of society and the regulation of power to permit human flourishing while simultaneously restraining the most Hobbesian human instincts.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
The problem for Democrats is that any observation of this second truth—a truth that seems likely to darken and expand in the aftermath of yesterday’s attack—will now be condemned as rancorous and immoral—or worse, as an incitement to further political violence. Every necessary criticism of Trump’s authoritarianism, fondness for dictators, fraudulen... See more
Sam Harris • Stepping Back From the Precipice
Liberals suffer incurably from naïveté, the stupidity of the good heart.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
fixation on the executive