Banning books is no different than burning them. Tolerating this nonsense is how tyrannical minorities assume power.
Read More“And he’d warn that the damage being done — to civil order, public property and, most of all perhaps, to the values demonstrators claim to champion — may not be easy to undo. “Rage and phrensy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation and foresight can build up in a hundred years.””
Read MoreThe Jacobin mob sews the seeds of its own destruction. The power of the mob is never satiated; it is empowered by contrition. It is as unreasoning and intolerant as any religious zealot; and more dangerous. Political zealotry invades every aspect of society, destroys every moderating institution and shreds the individual rights of constitutional government. It preys on the intellectually weak, political appeasement, and fear.
Read More“The idea that international institutions, built on the blood-stained rubble of two world wars, must give way to some glorious new era of nationalism is inflaming the minds of people across the West. It’s a very weird epidemic of Year Zero thinking on a global level. “
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