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10 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE IDEOLOGY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
As Tocqueville saw it, demagoguery would be the ultimate political expression of a society bereft—of family pride, manners, grammar, local custom, hierarchical structure, religious principles, and sacred space.
Frederick Brown • For the Soul of France
Ortega held the process to be the driving force of history. The “reciprocal action between the masses and select minorities,” he wrote, “is the fundamental fact of every society and the agent of its evolution for good or evil.” Ortega’s masses we now call the public. By “select minorities” he meant the admirable few: elites who, at their best, lavi
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
CHAPTER XXI Aristotle’s Politics
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
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