America’s Inertia And Incrementalism Crisis

Consider first the French Revolution. Today, many American conservatives demonize it, and denigrate the Age of Enlightenment because of the mob mentality excesses in its last few years, and final grisly outcome as well as the status-quo upsetting ideas the philosophes produced. In the late 18th century, Sir Edmund Burke feared their radical ideas, also propagated by Thomas Paine, could spread across the channel…