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“Taken on its own terms, pragmatism’s folly is that it separates intelligence from wisdom. Its greatest sins are arrogance and deceit, including self-deceit. It is arrogant because it assumes the individual—particularly the expert—can know everything he needs to know without reference to received wisdom,”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“whenever liberalism goes off the tracks and turns into something bad or despotic, it’s because real liberals have abandoned the project. The”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Despite the fact that the New Deal was a failure, it remains the gold standard in liberal policy making.”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
“Compared to children raised in an intact, married family, children raised in single-parent or cohabiting homes are significantly more likely to suffer psychological problems such as depression, to get into trouble with the law, to become pregnant as teenagers, and to drop out of high school.75”
― Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos
― Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos
“Doctors make no such exceptions to the Hippocratic Oath—save, of course, when it comes to abortion—and only then when another dogmatic obsession trumps their oath. Alas,”
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
― The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
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