Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual.... Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressions ...and their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological a...gents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. Fo...r Americans, more than most people, history has been that.... This sense of openness, of possibility and autonomy, has been a national asset as precious as the topsoil of the Middle West. But like topsoil, it is subject to erosion; it requires tending. And it is not bad for Americans to come to terms with the fact that for them too, history is a story of inertia and the unforeseen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »