Sublime

The cold divisive logic of the RCO impoverishes us, all of us, and brings us closer to that primitive state that the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes called “the war of every man against every man.”

For the evangelical left, equality and fairness are universally shared goals. Rothbard’s response was a book titled Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature. The idea that freedom and democracy are not only compatible but downright synonymous is taken for granted in contemporary American culture, but here Rothbard disagrees as well.

The secret origin of the evangelical left and their vision for what universities can do was uncovered by Thomas C. Leonard, who is ironically a research scholar at Woodrow Wilson’s very own Princeton University. Leonard’s 2015 book Illiberal Reformers is ostensibly about “Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era.” He