tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post8873952154592730067..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Ordered liberty & the political rhetoric of Alexander HamiltonHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-20564805183836204162015-03-27T18:55:53.673-04:002015-03-27T18:55:53.673-04:00J.S. Mill was right when he wrote this:
"He...J.S. Mill was right when he wrote this: <br /><br />"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. . . . Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. This is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or to bring them into real contact with his own mind. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of, else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty."<br /><br />Not only are conservatives hopelessly outnumbered, but the few that are there strategically conceal their views: <br /><br />"Republicans behave strategically, deliberately writing some liberal papers (or entering fields with weak ideological valence) in order to avoid being seen as excessively conservative by colleagues, deans, and students who mostly disagree with them." <br /><br />http://ericposner.com/do-conservative-law-professors-strategically-conceal-their-views/<br /><br />But our hope is in the fact that radicals who excuse themselves from thinking critically forget how to do it altogether: <br /><br />"At the meeting, the chair of one of those departments said, "I find that I don't really need to spend much time with the liberal students, because they already have it right. I spend most of my time arguing with the conservative students. That's how I spend my time in class."" <br /><br />http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=3050#.VASZ6GRdXlRTim Kowalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196125161888520769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-74227694305309013182015-03-27T15:33:10.489-04:002015-03-27T15:33:10.489-04:00It is the obligation, not the right, of the citize...<i> It is the obligation, not the right, of the citizen of a republic to be informed</i><br /><br /><br />Then it's a sacred obligation for everyone to watch Fox News at least occasionally.<br /><br />See, with the left-wing media and academia controlling the flow of knowledge and information, conservatives can't help but hear the other side. For our liberal friends, the debate is only the two sides of the same side.<br /><br />Jonathan Haidt's study:<br /><br />http://blogsforvictory.com/2014/01/25/conservatives-know-liberals-liberals-dont-know-conservatives/<br /><br />Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-48523713571435383962015-03-25T14:15:16.025-04:002015-03-25T14:15:16.025-04:00Excellent post, & I just entered the market fo...Excellent post, & I just entered the market for a work on early American rhetoric. <br /><br />"Now, we hear a great deal these days about the public’s “right to know.” That is a perversion of the truth....If the republic is to survive, the emphasis must be shifted from rights back to obligations. It is the obligation, not the right, of the citizen of a republic to be informed; it is the obligation of the public servant to inform him and simultaneously to raise his standards of judgment." <br /><br />This is the tip of the spear, I think, for reform in our time, too. We've just about hit peak rightstalk. We might finally be ready to hear about our republican duties again. Tim Kowalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196125161888520769noreply@blogger.com