Sublime

As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7

I figured Professor Haidt would speak about moral psychology, the theme of his book. But instead, on the day of the talk, Haidt discussed the purpose of a university. He urged the audience to consider whether the aim of higher education is to protect students or to equip them with the ability to seek truth, and he was clearly in favor of the latter

On en trouve une expression particulièrement aboutie dans un livre de William Riker, Liberalism Against Populism, qui pourrait avantageusement figurer dans notre panthéon des antipopulistes s’il n’avait été publié bien plus tard, en 1982, et s’il n’était la mise en œuvre d’une autre approche scientiste dans les sciences sociales : la théorie du cho

As president-elect he recruited a cabinet of frustrated first lovers or, as the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has called it, a “team of rivals.” They included his major competitors at Chicago—the indignantly disappointed Seward as secretary of state, the transparently ambitious Salmon P. Chase of Ohio as treasury secretary, the corrupt but politic