Teeth kicked in.
“Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?” Al Gore poses this central question in his new book Assault on Reason, released this week. “Faith in the power of reason – the belief that free citizens can govern themselves wisely and fairly – this premise is now under assault,” writes Gore. Agreed. Yet reason is being battered only because it’s been stripped of its bodyguard. The Constitutional Convention, which convened in Philadelphia 220 years ago on this day, warned against this happening. They knew that reason requires a bulked up bodyguard or its teeth get kicked in.

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Chew On This

May 4th, 2007

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