Love of liberty is laudable and logically the chief political end of man, so long as it is hitched to responsibleness. Eighteenth century man, politically educated and understanding the major implications of what was going on in his environment, made a fairly responsible voter. Today, common man insists on his right to vote and insists, equally, on the right not to have to know what he is voting about. This folly is pitching all common men rapidly toward the rocks. The current war is a mere reef we are now grating over. What lies beyond may be the greater disaster.

Both constructs of the aphorism hold true. But, because it is an American convention to adore common people without restriction, I elect here to criticize them…

There is no liberty for a man under any discipline except that which is self-imposed. The imposition of disciplines by the state is called fascism, or tyranny,…

'God,' the saying might also read, 'must hate the common people because he made them so common.'

If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence,…

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to d…

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.