Peter Starr on Wisdom and Culture
Continue reading “In Praise of Small Sanities”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
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.
Readers of my posts thus far will certainly have noticed my tendency to juxtapose the relative wisdom of Barack Obama to the stunning unwisdom of Donald Trump.
Continue reading “Does Wisdom Lean Left?”