Sublime

of freedom expressed in this spiritual?

C’est chez Max Weber que j’ai trouvé ce que je cherchais ; un homme qui avait à la fois l’expérience de l’histoire, la compréhension de la politique, la volonté de la vérité, et, au point d’arrivée, la décision et l’action. Or, la volonté de voir, de saisir la vérité, la réalité, d’un côté, et de l’autre côté agir : ce sont, me semble-t-il, les deu

The cosmopolitan outlook of Smart America overlaps in some areas with the libertarian views of Free America. Each embraces capitalism and the principle of meritocracy: the belief that your talent and effort should determine your reward. In the narrative of Smart America, meritocracy stands alongside democracy as the twin pillars of the American sys

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

John Dewey and Paulo Freire in articulating the interrelation of politics and education.

If you’re saying there is no reality outside yourself, then you’re saying that other people don’t matter as much as you do. —Cheney

If equality of educational opportunity can be established, democracy will be real and justified. For this is the vital truth beneath its catchwords: that though men cannot be equal, their access to education and opportunity can be made more nearly equal. The rights of man are not rights to office and power, but the rights of entry into every avenue

Ron Karenga, you said that ‘The fact that I am Black is my ultimate reality.’ But then on page 34 of the same book, you wrote that ‘Christianity begins and ends with the man Jesus—his life, death and resurrection.’ Which do you really mean? Blackness or Jesus Christ? You cannot have it both ways.” This is an important matter, and perhaps the place