The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the … - James Q. Wilson

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James Q. Wilson

The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

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We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment. . . [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

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There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want

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