By Alan Silverman on August 1, 2003
The people’s good is the highest law.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.
—Abraham Lincoln
When it comes to a decision by the head of the state upon a matter involving [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged August 2003, Volume II Number I
By Judd Birdsall on May 1, 2003
While attending Brown University, Adoniram Judson came to reject the pious Congregational ism of his upbringing in favor of Deism. His 1807 valedictory address hailed the value of free inquiry unhindered by religious faith. A few years after graduation, however, the ambitious freethinker’s intellectual confidence was shattered by a haunting experience in a drafty New [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged May 2003, Volume I Number III
By Alan Silverman on May 1, 2003
The only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them.
—Edmund Burke
Conservatism is the doctrine of pragmatic pessimism. A conservative sees the human race as nature’s flawed sensation—a race whose talents have brought phenomenal progress, yet whose defects—primarily [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged May 2003, Volume I Number III
By Alex Schulman on May 1, 2003
The modern left/right divide, which dates to the pre-terror days of the French Revolution, has grown calcified, stale, and altogether useless. Both” conservative” and “liberal” philosophies, as we now know them—for the two designations meant something quite different only a century ago—suffer from internal contradictions that render their hard line ideologues intellectually bankrupt. What is [...]
Posted in Features, Lead | Tagged May 2003, Volume I Number III
By Alex Schulman on March 1, 2003
As famed M.I.T. linguist and political dissident Avram Noam Chomsky, arguably the most important intellectual alive approaches his eighth decade on earth, and perhaps his fifth as the chief fly in the ointment of American political culture, he shows little indication of modifying any of his hardline and absolutist beliefs. He certainly did not seem [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged March 2003, Volume I Number II
