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Nov 30, 2017
What's in a Flag?
Political symbols are valuable because of what they convey about our society’s character, history, and vision...represents the bonds that ti
Nov 18, 2017
Two Fallible Heads are Better Than One
People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the
Nov 17, 2017
A Liberal Political Order: Medicine Not Food
“I [support democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people [embrace democracy] for the opposite reason. A great...
Nov 16, 2017
Man's Relation to Man
The value of a society is the value it places upon man’s relation to man.
Nov 15, 2017
Institutional Order and Change
The changes that occur are more likely to reflect local adaptation to local experience and thus be both relatively myopic and meandering, ra
Nov 14, 2017
The Polis and Public Judgment
The alternative to public judgment is not no judgment, but private judgments, multitudinous and conflicting, frustrating each other and deny
Nov 13, 2017
Organizations and the Pesky People Who Populate Them
There will develop an informal structure within the organization which will reflect the spontaneous efforts of individuals and subgroups to
Nov 12, 2017
Taking Some Things Off the Table
The rule of law rests, first, on the inability of the one or the few to control the many, and second, on the willingness of the many to leav
Nov 11, 2017
The "We"
We can see a crowd... Whether [it] is a mere gathering or a mass or an organized body or any other kind of social entity is a question which
Nov 10, 2017
What's a government to do?
...in consequence of this absence of rule or principle, one side is at present as often wrong as the other; the interference of government i
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