Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
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The Moral High Ground of Pain
When I read their views side by side on various issues, I can't help but feel often that pain holds the moral high ground and really exalts in it. Part of his rhetorical effectiveness strikes me as coming from the fact that he sees himself as the morally superior of the two positions. Burke's response to that is basically that morality is not as simple as it seems. And so we need to make sure we're on the right side.
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