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September 06, 2012 02:50 PM Clinton’s speech: Nasty, Brutish, and Long by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules Thomas Hobbes famously said that man in the “state of nature” faced a life that was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” It was the state, Hobbes thought, that beneficently intervened in that dour free-for-all and made civilized life possible. Hobbes was probably right about that, but what would have thought of the arrangements adopted [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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