Quote of the Week: Robert R. Reilly, “Making Gay Okay”
“There are two fundamentally different conceptions of science – one that is scientific and one that is not. In the first, science properly deals with…
“There are two fundamentally different conceptions of science – one that is scientific and one that is not. In the first, science properly deals with…
“But there are limits to how far democratic welfare states will go to sustain capitalism. Democracy’s support for feminism, for example, creates short-term benefits but…
“Many of us are involved in politics because we have an interest in the future of our community […] we want to make a positive contribution…
“Status arose from the strong, instinctive demand of a Catholic society for stable social relations between men, and, what was much more important, for a…
“Even Mill came to see the limitations of his own principle as a guide for policy and to deny that all pleasures were of equal…
“Of course, the old aristocratic society has vanished. But the vision of culture and public spirit survived for a while the society that engendered it….
“That there is an individual spirit that breaths through a whole people, is participated in by all, though not by all alike; a spirit which…
“What makes a people? A people has a common heritage and a will to a common destiny. A people exists despite superficial cleavages such as…
“The survival instinct of our political representatives will never diminish, but history shows us that leaders who demonstrate conviction generally fare better than those without…
“Partisans of the political vision and the moral ideal implied in the modern ‘version of the universal’ view the ultimate perfection of the European Union…