“If we look to people who make no mistakes, who were always on the right side, who never apologized for tyrants or unjust wars, we shall have few heroes and heroines” PurityHeroesThe Left Book:Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America Source: Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
“[T]he American Left, in its horror at the Vietnam War, reinvented sin.” ReligionSinVietnam WarLeftismIdentity PoliticsCulture Wars Author:Richard M. Rorty
“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.” PeopleAtheismMoralityEthicsPrejudiceAtheistDiscriminationOrthodoxThinkMorality Without ReligionReligious RightPostmodernistsRichard Rorty Author:Richard M. Rorty