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Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence, with Greg Weiner
Episode 137
Published 6 years, 5 months ago
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“Prudence” is not just something Dana Carvey liked to lampoon back when President George H.W. Bush was in office. Rather, it is the highest and most essential quality of those superb human beings we used to call “statesmen” before political science and history banished both terms in a fit of egalitarian madness that has yet to abate in our leading intellectual circles. One antidote to this... Source