The journey of a 1,000 miles
Why create these posts? Give candidates ten pages of information, their response: “Too Long, Didn’t Read”. People defend their common knowledge answers. “The Puritans came to the new world for religious freedom.” Unless we...
Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1754-1821) Dynamic Equilibrium: Why Tradition Fails Rather than evaluate policies, Burke’s conservatism blamed the public’s abandoning traditional values for the American and French Revolutions. For centuries gradual adjustments to...
Edmund Burke (1729-97) The Age of Enlightenment lasted from 1651 to 1779. It’s defense of reason and individual rights inspired the Declaration of Independence and American Revolution. However, before the Constitution was ratified the...
The Founding Principle of Enlightenment Centuries of intellectual darkness followed the fall of Rome. Religious wars and growing mercantile wealth exposed the limits of the old polity without providing new answers. Westerners typically imagine...
