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Liberalism, Tradition and Faith

We live in odd times. Rationalized insanity like political correctness ("PC") and "zero tolerance" shows a growing conflict between public standards and normal human understandings that makes common-sense judgments impossible. The same conflict has disordered activities that rely on formal standards, like education and scholarship, practices that express public ideals, like architecture, and institutions that depend on harmony between social standards and natural human tendencies, like the family. As a result, young people are badly instructed, scholarship is disconnected from normal experience, the built environment is ugly and alienating, and family life is chaotic and ill-tempered.

Why these things have...