Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, c… - Russell Kirk

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.

Worse still, what future have a people whose schooling has enabled them, at best, to ascertain the price of everything — but the value of nothing?

You will have gathered that I am disappointed, generally speaking, with the Neoconservative faction. I had hope that they might bring lively imagination into the conservative camp; instead, they have urged conservatives to engage in ideological sloganizing, the death of political imagination.