Sublime

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

Consider the saying often attributed to Stalin that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is statistics.

As one person put it, “Which murderous ideology should I be worried about: the one that won or the one that lost?”

Comme au début de son histoire elle reprend la question de l’universalité, mais, cette fois-ci, elle ne se précipite pas pour imposer à tout le monde ses propres préjugés. Rien de tel qu’un Vieux Continent pour reprendre à nouveaux frais ce qui est commun et s’apercevoir, en tremblant, que l’universelle condition aujourd’hui, c’est de vivre dans le

intransigent.

If Mill’s hypothesis is wrong and Schumpeter is right, we must ask some hard questions: How much do we really want people to participate in politics? How much should people even be allowed to participate?

He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.

The illusion of infinite consumer choice serves to conceal from view the erosion of political, civic and human rights.