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In short order, the conservative intellectualism I thought I knew had all but vanished from the discourse that dominated the Republican Party. Champions of the US Constitution, and of originalism, were now sympathetic to a man who obviously ...more
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Thomas Paine
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Michel de Montaigne
“ATruly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Jill Lepore
“appalled by nationalism, they disavowed national history, as nationalism’s handmaiden. But when scholars stopped writing national history, other, less scrupulous people stepped in. Nations, to make sense of themselves, need some kind of agreed-upon past. They can get it from scholars or they can get it from demagogues, but get it they will. The endurance of nationalism proves that there’s never any shortage of fiends and frauds willing to prop up people’s sense of themselves and their destiny with a tissue of myths and prophecies, prejudices and hatreds, or to pour out the contents of old rubbish bags full of festering incitements, resentments, and calls to violence. When serious historians abandon the study of the nation, when scholars stop trying to write a common history for a people, nationalism doesn’t die. Instead, it eats liberalism. Liberalism is still in there. The trick is getting it out. There’s only one way to do that. It requires grabbing and holding onto a very good idea: that all people are equal and endowed from birth with inalienable rights and entitled to equal treatment, guaranteed by a nation of laws. This requires making the case for the nation.”
Jill Lepore, This America: The Case for the Nation

Edmund Burke
“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Aaron Sachs
“The point was simply that people had to wake up before they could be expected to embrace full citizenship. And it seemed better to emphasize a subtle reshaping of consciousness than dramatic political action, for Mumford shared Melville’s distrust of revolutions: “Revolution in the light of the constant miscarriage of every revolution from 1789 onward is nothing more than the form through which a decadent civilization commits suicide.” Basically, the first order of business was to cultivate human beings who would never allow demagogues to sway them, who were self-critical enough to resist movements like Nazism; the world could have no more of Melville’s “moderate men.” “The danger to human society today,” Mumford asserted, “does not come solely from the active barbarians: it comes even more perhaps from those who have in their hearts assented to the barbarian’s purposes.” Look to your heart, Mumford was saying. And fortify it with an understanding of our ancestors’ sacrifices and our vast inheritance.”
Aaron Sachs, Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

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