Challenges to Conservatism

May 11th, 2018

Philadelphia Society, April 28, 2007 It is a pleasure to join you in the city of brotherly love to discuss “challenges to conservatism.” I am confident that quite a lot of brotherly love would need to be expended to arrive at a universally agreeable answer to the quandaries before us. …(Read More)

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“Criticismism” (sic) ‘Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking'”

September 29th, 0518

When Otto von Bismarck warned that “We must never look into the origin of laws or sausages,” he articulated a principle diametrically opposed to the Enlightenment ideal of intellectual exposure, summed up in Kant’s motto for the Enlightenment: “Sapere aude,” Dare to Know! What we call “critical thinking” today is an …(Read More)

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