Standards, Cultural Relativism, and Broken Windows

Standards, Cultural Relativism, and Broken Windows This blog builds on the prior blogs Virtue: religion and philosophy, what does the founders’ vision embrace? and Virtue and Pandora’s Box: Effective Policy. Pandora’s Box discussed the damage some Victorian virtue policies wrought, but said the social justice movement’s “cure” may be worse than the disease it sought …

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The Unbearable Stupidity of Being Democrat

The Unbearable Stupidity of Being Democrat. It’s always a dicey matter to discern motive from behavior in a single situation. In fact, a basic tenet of psychology, as explained in my Psychology 101 class at West Point during my youth, was that deducing attitude and motive from behavior is impossible. Intellectually that makes sense, but practically, …

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