The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America,… — John Leo Copy Share Image
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow. — John Leo Copy Share Image
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative. — John Leo Copy Share Image
Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to… — John Leo Copy Share Image
“You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.” — John Leo Copy Share Image
Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young… — John Leo Copy Share Image
The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else. — John Leo Copy Share Image
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do. — John Leo Copy Share Image
[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no… — John Leo Copy Share Image
I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on… — John Leo Copy Share Image
Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away? — John Leo Copy Share Image
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our… — John Leo Copy Share Image
No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo Copy Share Image
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