The frequently excellent Bret Stephens was thrilled about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s elevation of western civilization in his Munich Security Conference speech last week. Stephens desires a renewed reverence for the civilizational qualities that shaped Europe, and subsequently the United States.
He laments the “damage” done to “normal citizens in modern democracies who, unless they’ve sought it out for themselves, lack a clear idea of what the west stands for.” Stephens is of the view that they should know “the [great] conversation between Plato and Aristotle, Locke and Rousseau, Keynes and Hayek.” Something like that.
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