Today, Nostalgia Is Almost As Unacceptable As

The Kantian Imperative To Have The Courage To Think For Oneself Has Involved A Contemptuous Disregard For The Resources Of Tradition And An Infantile View Of Authority As Inherently Oppressive.

Genuine Equality Means Not Treating Everyone The Same, But Attending Equally To Everyone’s Different Needs.

The Present Is Only Understandable Through The Past, With Which It Forms A Living Continuity; And The Past Is Always Grasped From Our Own Partial Viewpoint Within The Present.

There Is An Insuperable Problem About Introducing Immigrants To British Values. There Are No British Values. Nor Are There Any Serbian Or Peruvian Values. No Nation Has A Monopoly On Fairness And Decency, Justice And Humanity.

The Role Of The Intellectual, So It Is Said, Is To Speak Truth To Power. Noam Chomsky Has Dismissed This Pious Tag On Two Grounds. For One Thing, Power Knows The Truth Already; It Is Just Busy Trying To Conceal It. For Another, It Is Not Those In Power Who Need The Truth, But Those They Oppress.