re: "What Should Conservatives Conserve?" (The New York Times, August 4, 2021)
Conserve the open society, the willingness to consider alternative views and to allow others to explore what you might not wish for yourself. That valuing of openness led its healthily dissenting writers to craft the expansive founding documents of a United States.
That openness to new voices exploring new ways to pursue human thriving has a long history from disparate elements of the Western tradition, seen in such rebels as the street activists Socrates and Jesus. Follow their lead, not the repressive, stultifying example of the law and order mob, the repressive social morality mob, those brutish traditionalists who put the likes of Socrates and Jesus to death in strict accord with their stunting rule of law.
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