Tag: liberalism

The Wisdom to Know the Difference

Peter Starr

Photo: Ernest Hamlin Baker

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer

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Does Wisdom Lean Left?

Peter Starr
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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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