"The writers, artists and musicians of France and Germany also fell under the spell. The Communist Party appealed not because of its concrete policies or any believable programme of action within the existing order. It appealed because it addressed the inner disorder of the intellectual class, in a world where there was nothing real to believe in."
- Roger Scruton
State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.
- Thomas Jefferson
Voices were raised by all but one who kept staring out the window.
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A Supreme Court Justice goes to a restaurant for dinner. Protesters show up. The restaurant criticizes the disruption by the protesters.
Of course, that is not the end of it. Now people are making fake reservations at the restaurant.
Charming people.
The struggle for liberty on American campuses is one of the defining struggles of the age in which we find ourselves. A nation that does not educate in freedom will not survive in freedom, and will not even know when it has lost it.
- Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silvergate in The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (1998)
Key questions will be:
