Embracing Oakeshott
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Moral Equivalent of War
Woodrow Wilson had a real war, but progressives who rallied around to the war effort were very cognizant that they could use the war effort to restructure society. And then you have FDR, and they made a big deal about how FDR studied under William James at Harvard or something like that. They claimed some major connection, but it was basically just PR stuff. But you had FDR saying, okay, we're gonna fight the Great Depression as a moral equivalent of war enterprise. Jimmy Carter literally said he wanted to make fighting the energy crisis the moral equivalent of War.
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