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It would be naïve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic. Now... See more

N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval

The Abolition of Man (Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis)

C. S. Lewis

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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

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

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William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.

Mike Caufield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

The Straussian Moment

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But this ceases to be the case as we descend to States in which knowledge is less generally diffused, and where the township consequently offers fewer guarantees of a wise and active administration.

Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)

The colonists followed the same trails to expand governance, and on the other hand, they required fine colonial engineering that eventually including land surveys, anthropological and topographic investigation, and cartography. In this land of hardship, the implementation of governance techniques needed to create a fictional collective consciousnes... See more

Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo • Cartographer

For four centuries every man has been not only his own priest but his own professor of ethics, and the consequence is an anarchy which threatens even that minimum consensus of value necessary to the political state.