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In Praise of Small Sanities

Peter Starr
Photo: CBC Radio

No wise liberal has ever thought that liberalism is all of wisdom…. Liberalism isn’t a political theory applied to life.  It’s what we know about life applied to a political theory.

Adam Gopnick, In Praise of Small Sanities

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Does Wisdom Lean Left?

Peter Starr
Photo: CBS News

Wisdom does not “lean left” so much as “lean liberal.”  If wisdom has a party, it is the party of philosophical liberalism and its historic fellow traveler, liberal education.  

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