“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.