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To Suffer Together

  From Never Enough by William Voegeli “Etymologically, “compassion” means to suffer together. “Together,” however, is different from “identically.” Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping

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Compassion without Results

From the October 2014 issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis, William Voegeli writes The Case Against Liberal Compassion Excerpt: It follows, then, that the answer to the question of how liberals who profess to be anguished about other people’s suffering can be so

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The Price of Clarity

“The Risk of Insult is the Price of Clarity”- Roy Williams Politicians love to use words without meaning, or words they refuse to define.  Business people often fall for this trap as well. Such vague usage may seem to make

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