Sublime

He had also been working out a new theory of economics that attempted to push back against the worst dehumanizing effects of industrialization.

The third threat to liberalism is that some people will remain both indispensable and undecipherable, but they will constitute a small and privileged elite of upgraded humans.

The Left and the Right think of themselves as opposed to each other, but nuances aside, they follow the idea that the purpose of U.S. power is to project American principles.

At the end of the day, too many potentially highly productive individuals are underutilized, to their detriment and to the loss of society as a whole.

The great human projects of the twentieth century – overcoming famine, plague and war – aimed to safeguard a universal norm of abundance, health and peace for all people without exception.

John Stuart Mill held that government oppression is generally less burdensome than the tyranny of friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.

Second, the sum of expertise was less, not greater, than the parts.

It is always a time of tension and mutual loathing that appears to be tearing the country apart. The last act of the decaying era is the election of a president utterly committed to the principles and practices of the prior era.