HILLSDALE COLLEGE, IMPRIMIS, April 2009 - The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on March 9, 2009.
Excerpt: [I]t seemed bizarre to find the progressive left making common cause with radical Islam. One half of the alliance profess to be pro-gay, pro-feminist secularists; the other half are homophobic, misogynist theocrats. Even as the cheap bus 'n' truck road-tour version of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, it made no sense. But in fact what they have in common overrides their superficially more obvious incompatibilities: Both the secular Big Government progressives and political Islam recoil from the concept of the citizen, of the free individual entrusted to operate within his own societal space, assume his responsibilities, and exploit his potential. Read more of Live Free or Die at Imprimis...“Reprinted in part by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.”
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