That seems to be the attitude of lot of moderns. <\/p>\n
This evening I heard a talk by Niall Ferguson in which he pointed out that most republics have failed, and that the interesting thing about the USA is that a republic survived. That should make us wonder — what is it about the USA that allowed it to survive as a republic? <\/p>\n
That made me think about the classic distinction between conservatives and liberals, viz., when a liberal finds an inconvenient fence he tears it down, while the conservative first tries to find out why the fence was built. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That seems to be the attitude of lot of moderns. This evening I heard a talk by Niall Ferguson in which he pointed out that most republics have failed, and that the interesting thing about the USA is that a republic survived. That should make us wonder — what is it about the USA that … Continue reading ““The world was awful until I came along””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}