Tag: utopian idealism

The Mirage of Utopia (Or Being Free to Be Ourselves)

Commentary Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad—or fools. The most dangerous and destructive kind of foolishness is that of intelligent and educated people. There is nothing so absurd, said Cicero, but that some philosopher has not said it: And worse still, there is no philosophy so absurd that it has…


Once Upon a Time in Moscow

Commentary Once in Moscow, before the downfall of the Soviet Union, I stood in the line to file past the alleged corpse of Lenin in his mausoleum in Red Square. Behind me was a man from Brooklyn. “This country is the hope of the world,” he said. He was an old-fashioned communist of a type…