We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.
Jonah Goldberg[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.
Jonah GoldbergAnd in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.
Jonah GoldbergBut this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.
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