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“Because in this view the domestic principles of an Islamic state were divinely ordained, non-Muslim political entities were illegitimate; they could never be accepted by Muslim states as truly equal counterparts. A peaceful world order depended on the ability to forge and expand a unitary Islamic entity, not on an equilibrium of competing parts.”
― World Order
― World Order
“In the real world, social democracy produces chronically low rates of growth, and persistently high levels of unemployment. But it also commands profound ideological and political identification. And, once entrenched, it is politically nearly impossible to abandon.”
― America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
― America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
“Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.”
― In the Shadow of the Mountains
― In the Shadow of the Mountains
“The genius of this system, and the reason it spread across the world, was that its provisions were procedural, not substantive.”
― World Order
― World Order
“Hence arises the belief that traditional culture, which is always based on particular connections, identities, and meanings, is intrinsically oppressive; that “essentialism,” the belief that things have a particular nature and significance, is ignorance and bigotry; and that “discrimination”, treating one connection as more fitting than another for any non-technological reason, is irrational and wrong.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
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