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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg cover image

A Fistful of Dust

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Is There a System So Perfect That No One Has to Be Goodan I Fens?

i think t s eliot's one of those thinkers that conservatives should be thinking more about and should re visit. We've kind of forgotten him as a conservative thinker in some ways. He talks about people who dream of building systems so perfect that no one has to be goodan i fens, great. But we don't know how things are going to turn out when we make certain decisions. So am yettherestheres almost everything,. In being a question of what we've got different prior we've got trade offs. It's the utopianism that you can find in marks and rousseau. Im in august comte talks about the great wheel of history being pushed forward

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