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No Great, Inspiring Culture Of The Future Can Be Built Upon The Moral Principle Of Relativism. For At Its Bottom Such A Culture Holds That Nothing Is Better Than Anything Else, And That All Things Are In Themselves Equally Meaningless. Except For The Fragments Of Faith (in Progress, In Compassion, In Conscience, In Hope) To Which It Still Clings, Illegitimately, Such A Culture Teaches Every One Of Its Children That Life Is A Tale Told By An Idiot, Signifying Nothing.

Command By Instinct Is Swifter, Subtler, Deeper, More Accurate, More In Touch With Reality Than Command By Conscious Mind. The Discovery Takes One's Breath Away.

What Is The Most Effective, Practical Way Of Raising The Wealth Of Nations? What Causes Wealth? I Have Come To Think That The Dream Of Democratic Socialism Is Inferior To The Dream Of Democratic Capitalism, And That The Latter's Superiority In Actual Practice Is Undeniable.

Ending Torture And Tyranny In Iraq Was Not A Mistake. Supporting Democracy In Iraq Is Not A Mistake. Helping The Long-suffering Muslims Of Iraq Who Now Seek To Live Democratically Is Not A Mistake. In The Long, Long History Of The Middle East, This Breakthrough May One Day Be Ranked As A Dramatic Turning Point In Regional History.

Jews Do Not Have To Be Christians. Christianity Is An Offshoot Of Judaism, But Too Utopian, Too Hopeful, Too Unrealistic A Turn.