Sublime

Impressionné par la manière dont l’aristocratie britannique s’était convertie à la liberté politique en assurant une transition paisible vers la démocratie et en s’ouvrant vers les autres classes, permettant ainsi de légitimer ses privilèges et de conserver une structure de société de classes tout en accompagnant les réformes politiques, il fut fra

The liberal story was the story of ordinary people. How can it remain relevant to a world of cyborgs and networked algorithms?

It should not be surprising that the facts of human progress confound the major -isms. The ideologies are more than two centuries old and are based on mile-high visions such as whether humans are tragically flawed or infinitely malleable, and whether society is an organic whole or a collection of individuals.43 A real society comprises hundreds of

By 1956, the sociologist William H. Whyte saw a “decline of the Protestant ethic” and the rise of “the organization man,” for whom conformity was prized over initiative.

The interpretation of the world through the lens of ‘social justice’, ‘identity group politics’ and ‘intersectionalism’ is probably the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology.

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

they did, with terrifying impunity. Above all during these decades, social priorities in America and much of the world seemed to shift in the same direction: from the individual to the group; from private rights to public results; from discovering ideals to championing them; from attacking institutions to founding them; from customizing down to sca