And what about the ideal of freedom, the principle that in America has served as a beacon for both the left and the right, the religious and the secular, for the past three hundred years? This has become such a fundamental part of our thinking that we have all but forgotten its origin as an Enlightenment project. But in fact no one before that era ever considered individual autonomy to be a “natural” right. | |
— Brooke Allen | |
From her book: “Moral Minority“ | |
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2017 | By Far |
2016 | Until… |
2015 | Or Infinitesimal |
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2012 | Feeling Old? (Part 2) |
2011 | What About Freedom? |
What About Freedom?
May 12, 2011 by kmabarrett
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