Thank you for posting. This was an insightful and thought-provoking discussion, but also a prime example of reasonable debate on "controversial issues" in the face of the dissolution of campus free speech we have seen as of late. I would venture to say that if campus culture is allowed to stray much further from the Socratic method, the implications will be much more harmful then "being offended." Great post all around: on content, context, and quality.

24:34 "A religious view that I think is highly relevant to politics is human fallenness and fallibility.... people are fallen, frail creatures who are prone to selfishness, rapaciousness; given to envy, enmity... in love with power, influence... Democracy's not gonna eliminate any of that. Which is why even our choices within the democratic system have to be subject to moral principles. And why we have to care about the cultivation of virtue in our people... to be an education not simply of mental techniques but of the soul... It's not a matter solely of IQ, it's a matter of disposition and of the heart... Famously, James Madison wanted to design a system of government that would at least in part supply the defect of better motives. Where institutions and institutional structures, and checks and balances, and separation of power, would at least help to male up for the fact that people are frail and fallen and given to selfishness etc... but even Madison recognized that those constitutional structures could only partially supply that effect. That in the end, the justice or injustice of a society...will depend on choices reflecting our character: the virtues or vices of the people." -Robert George

Thank you for this discussion.

A wonderful debate. Thanks for posting!

Eternal

RIP Sheldon Wolin. "Politics and Vision" is a profound book that I have in my library.

Unfortunately, my beautiful brother West misrepresents the song lyric “say my name, say my name.” A critical examination of the complete lyrics reveal the song is a liberating anthem and encouragement to women to not be manipulated, to not be disrespected, to not be another conquest, to not be made invisible by a philanderer.

Brother West Sheldon Wolin was born in Chicago. ChiTown represent

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It’s impossible to get rid of poverty. What West should concentrate on is opportunity not redistribution. That will make poverty negligible.

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We have to find a better way than what is going on right now. Look up Nick Hanauer TedX talks. Don’t think impossible. Impossible with man is possible with God. Christ will sit on the throne and the greedy will burn and the needy will be elevated