Ken Silber
2009-06-11 12:53:57
Rand: Left-wingers can be racist too. I never doubted it. Since the overall thrust of Wilson’s administration was to impose a future vision, rather than revert to a past state, Wilson was a left-wing racist.
Patrick: “Enlightenment,” like “left” and “right” comes in a variety of meanings. Yes, the Terror was perpetrated by (some) exponents of the French Enlightenment, who thought that progress required violence. The Scottish Enlightenment tended to produce more moderate and free-market thinkers.
