David Kaiser's current post.
He is right, about so much.
Here is an especially important point:
"The attack on government has also become an
attack on reason in public life...."
This point does seem to me to go back 'a long way'.
Politics has, (always, really, but) too often recently
especially here, been an appeal to anti rational
forces.
There are many very different kinds of reasons for
this.
Some are polito-structural in our system, frustrating
efforts at rationality leads to cynicism about
rationality itself, rather than to efforts at rational
reforms.
Complexity of post modern life has had its many
implications toward anti intellectualism also.
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