The nature of political debate in our country has completely polarized us, making it nearly impossible to carry on a healthy debate. Our two-party political system (which George Washington warned us about) has turned us all into a bunch of sarcastic, recalcitrant children who are more concerned with being right than finding the truth.
We have [...]
Is it possible to escape the fatal consequences of a good principle? For myself I consider them inevitable.
~Alexis de Tocqueville, Memoir on Pauperism
It occurs to me that although we are a very polarized society, we are not really all that different. With few exceptions, it is not our values that separate us. We all value “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Rather, what separates us is the debate regarding the mechanisms by which we achieve these [...]