Vision Things

Vision Things books, arts & manners because not all people are equally gifted, but if everyone is created equal yet not everyone is equal in fact, something must be wrong.

Pursuing this materialistic conception to the point of obsession, the Western Left promotes as remedy “an aggressive secularism, an overweening state, and a transformation of constitutional law into partisan politics.” Resolutely avoiding the sin of despair, Anderson answers the critique by outlining both the real achievements of free societies and the intellectual and cultural foundations for them. Key among his insights is that the defenders of freedom tend to take a very practical view of life, judging ideas and policies by the consequences they bring, whereas opponents of liberty want to force reality into a mold based on their imaginings of an ideal society. The radicals’ vision isn’t connected to an understanding of how human beings really are; that’s why they end up attacking all the organically developed institutions and ideas that make a free society work-economic freedom, religious faith (especially Christianity), individual liberty, rule of law, the principle of subsidiarity, the family, and public morality.

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S. T. Karnick

Mr. Karnick is the director of research for the Heartland Institute.

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Vision Things books, arts & manners because not all people are equally gifted, but if everyone is created equal yet not everyone is equal in fact, something must be wrong.

Pursuing this materialistic conception to the point of obsession, the Western Left promotes as remedy “an aggressive secularism, an overweening state, and a transformation of constitutional law into partisan politics.” Resolutely avoiding the sin of despair, Anderson answers the critique by outlining both the real achievements of free societies and the intellectual and cultural foundations for them. Key among his insights is that the defenders of freedom tend to take a very practical view of life, judging ideas and policies by the consequences they bring, whereas opponents of liberty want to force reality into a mold based on their imaginings of an ideal society. The radicals’ vision isn’t connected to an understanding of how human beings really are; that’s why they end up attacking all the organically developed institutions and ideas that make a free society work-economic freedom, religious faith (especially Christianity), individual liberty, rule of law, the principle of subsidiarity, the family, and public morality.