“A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.”
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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.