So there you have it. The foundational assumptions of American intellectuals as a group are firmly based on the assumptions of the progressive state and the Blue Social Model. Those who run our government agencies, our universities, our foundations, our mainstream media outlets and other key institutions cannot at this point look the future in the face. The world is moving in ways so opposed to their most hallowed assumptions that they simply cannot make sense of it. They resist blindly and uncreatively and, unable to appreciate the extraordinary prospects for human liberation that this change can bring, they are incapable of creative and innovative response.

The Crisis of the American Intellectual, Walter Russell Mead.

Read the whole thing. Seriously. Essay of the month, if not year.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.