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Back to School, with Prof. Harvey Mansfield

Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger

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Government Is Limited, Not Exercising Rights

Government is limited to securing rights, not exercising them. Government goes beyond securin into the realm of exercising. But they don't speak of virtue, neither conservatives nor liberals. So it becomes a difficult for conservatives to know what to do in the face of the liberalism of capital liberals. If you go back, then you disrupt everything. Going back would be a kind of revolutionandi are opposed to revolution. Then if you go slow, then, as new gingridge said, you end up financing the welfare f state.

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