How to Do Politics Well
ReImagining Liberty
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The Skillful Use of a Tool
Political wisdom gets lost in the noise of everyone is either a potential enemy or a friend. I think there are approach to the skillful use of a tool needs to be motivated by benevolence because keep in mind that this tool is ultimately being used to enable all of us to live together prosparously in peace. There's a real tendency to use politics as almost an anti-compassion as a way to simply punish the people that we don't like and then to delight in their suffering. If you don't have that compassion if you don't have that goodwill then this extraordinarily powerful and dangerous tool will inevitably be put to vicious ends.
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