“Mr. Republican” was the last of his kind: interventionist at home but not abroad.
He thought government should “keep the ship afloat” for men to chart their own course.
By imposing limits on government, it makes justice possible.
Balancing freedom and social order is a fundamentally American challenge.
Without it, man is “a naked ape”—and prey to the diabolic imagination.
How Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Nietzsche shaped our era—and how conservatives respond.
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