Lear: The "Abused Nature" "Of This Child-Changed Father"

One of the great pleasures in reading literature is to discover a few sentences or lines that are so rich with significance that they simultaneously do two things.  On the one hand, they deepen the narrative, play, or poem as it advances, and, on the other hand, radiate, and encapsulate, the work’s broader meaning and concerns.

In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act 4, scene 7, lines 16-19, Lear’s youngest daughter Cordelia meets her father and becomes overwhelmed by his state of affairs:  his dementia and his abandonment -- more than that, his abuse and rejection -- by his other two elder daughters Goneril and Regan.  Cordelia interrupts her speech with an apostrophe to the “kind gods,” and she prays that Lear may be healed.

CORDELIA                                           O, you kind gods,
Cure this great breach in his abusèd nature!
Th’ untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up,
Of this child-changèd father!

-- King Lear, IV.vii.16-19

The short passage is pregnant with significance, especially double meanings.

First, “abused nature” refers most immediately to his madness (i.e., insanity).  Cordelia finds his unmooring from reality to be particularly pitied.  These are his “untuned and jarring senses.” At the same time, the “abused nature” signifies the natural relationship of father and daughter that Goneril and Regan have “abused” in not patiently caring for their aging, ailing father and in their acute hostility toward him. This is also, as much as the dementia, the “breach” in his natural constitution:  as a person of sound mind and as a father of (falsely) doting daughters.  Ironically, it was Cordelia who in Act 1 affirmed her love for Lear “as are right fit” (1.1.107) and “according to my [natural filial] bond” (1.1.102), yet whom Lear rejected, abused, by disowning and banishing from the kingdom. 

"Lear and Cordelia," Ford Madox Brown, 1848

Second, the other petition in Cordelia’s prayer is for the gods to “wind up,” or to mend or fix, the senses (the mental, perceptual, and emotional capacities) of this “child-changed father.”  The image may be one of a chiming clock, “untuned and jarring,” imprecise in reflection of reality (as a clock that needs to be wound) and jarring in the sound it makes as a result of its chiming at the wrong time. Lear himself variously lashes out and speaks nonsense because of the two factors that so plague him:  his failing mental capacities and his shattered family relationships with his children.  He is, both because of his own banishment of Cordelia and because of Goneril’s and Regan’s essential “banishment” of him, a “child-changed father.”

This passage, then, echoes succinctly a key, overarching, tragic irony of the play. Lear himself, because of his combined natural, hasty, manic disposition and his increasing dementia, rejects genuine affection where it was to be found (Cordelia) and is himself rejected by false affection where he chose, in his foolish pursuit of public professions, to believe it was true (Goneril and Regan).  Cordelia perceives and feels deeply the tragedy of Lear’s losing himself and his ties to his daughters, both of which are abuses to his nature.

The Fiction of Sexual Violence, pt. 2: Faulkner

In the first part of this series on the fiction of sexual violence, I briefly explained the twin aspects of "fiction" according to which I will explore this theme.  I began with Toni Morrison's Beloved and a reading of the effects of Ella's experience as a sex slave (quite literally as a slave in the Antebellum South).  And I suggested that we see in her trauma how sexual violence both disables a person's capacity for love (both loving and being loved) and dehumanizes the person in the process.  In Faulkner’s Light in August, the sexual violence between Joe Christmas and Joanna Burden is different.

Nietzsche and Foucault on Domination

Michel Foucault is justifiably regarded as a Nietzschean thinker.  In Madness and Civilization, Foucault adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s genealogical method of inquiry and extends Nietzsche’s idea that “in all events a will to power is operating” (“Second Essay:  ‘Guilt,’ ‘Bad Conscience,’ and the Like,” in Genealogy of Morals, 514). Influenced by Nietzsche, Foucault interprets the history of madness in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries as attempts to control or dominate others, especially when society’s morals are perceived to be violated or threatened. 

Law and Moral Philosophy

Yesterday Robert H. Bork died.  He was as polarizing a figure in American culture, politics, and jurisprudence as he was significant.

In recognition of his significance, the editors of The Wall Street Journal compiled excerpts from a number of Judge Bork's writings.  One of those in particular struck me as worth reproducing.  It concerns the public perception of law and morality.  This perception, often confused, is a subject that I have noted previously (e.g., here, here, and here).

A person does not need to agree with Judge Bork to acknowledge the helpful clarity of his thinking and how that lucidity, even incisiveness, contributes to public discourse about matters of substance.

OPINION

The Wall Street Journal

The Wisdom of Robert Bork

  “Their Will Be Done,” July 5, 2005

Once the justices depart, as most of them have, from the original understanding of the principles of the Constitution, they lack any guidance other than their own attempts at moral philosophy, a task for which they have not even minimal skills. Yet when it rules in the name of the Constitution, whether it rules truly or not, the Court is the most powerful branch of government in domestic policy. The combination of absolute power, disdain for the historic Constitution, and philosophical incompetence is lethal.

The Court's philosophy reflects, or rather embodies and advances, the liberationist spirit of our times. In moral matters, each man is a separate sovereignty. In its insistence on radical personal autonomy, the Court assaults what remains of our stock of common moral beliefs. That is all the more insidious because the public and the media take these spurious constitutional rulings as not merely legal conclusions but moral teachings supposedly incarnate in our most sacred civic document.

A version of this article appeared December 20, 2012, on page A19 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: The Wisdom of Robert Bork.

The Dark Knight (of Taxing) Rises

In an effort at once to sympathize with those who find themselves in the minority and to recognize respectable reasoning through a topic when it arises, I reproduce in full today's rather lengthy editorial in The Wall Street Journal.

A Vast New Taxing Power

The Chief Justice's ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth.

The commentary on John Roberts's solo walk into the Affordable Care Act wilderness is converging on a common theme: The Chief Justice is a genius. All of a sudden he is a chessmaster, a statesman, a Burkean minimalist, a battle-loser but war-winner, a Daniel Webster for our times.

Now that we've had more time to take in Chief Justice Roberts's reasoning, we have a better summary: politician. In fact, his 5-4 ruling validating the constitutional arguments against purchase mandates and 5-4 ruling endorsing them as taxes is far more dangerous, and far more political, even than it first appeared last week.

This is a minority view. By right-left acclaim, at least among elites, the Chief Justice has engineered a Marbury v. Madison-like verdict that camouflages new limits on federal power as a reprieve for President Obama's entitlement legacy and in a stroke enhanced the Supreme Court's reputation—and his own. This purported "long game" appeals to conservatives who can console themselves with a moral victory, while the liberals who like to assail the Chief Justice as a radical foe of democracy can continue their tantrum.

It's an elegant theory whose only flaw is that it is repudiated by Chief Justice Roberts's own language and logic. His gambit substitutes one unconstitutional expansion of government power for another and rearranges the constitutional architecture of the U.S. political system.

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His first error is the act of rewriting the plain text of a law, instead of practicing the disinterested interpretation that is the task of the judiciary, regardless of the partisan outcome. The second error is converting the health insurance mandate's penalty into a tax. Ninety years of precedents have honed precise and widely divergent legal meanings for taxes and penalties for violating laws or regulations, and they are not interchangeable.

The Chief Justice did not simply change a label—as if Congress said something was a penalty when it was really a tax. Rather, these categories are defined by their purposes and effects, by how they operate in practice. Taxes are "exactions" whose main goal is raising revenue, while penalties punish individuals for breaking the law. The boundaries can blur—legitimate taxes may also have strong punitive aims—but scarcely so in this case. ObamaCare's mandate was designed to regulate individual conduct to help achieve universal coverage. If it succeeds perfectly, it should collect $0.

Even if Democrats had passed the mandate tax as rewritten by the Chief Justice, and they did not, the Supreme Court until Thursday has never held that Congress can call anything it wants a tax. The taxing power like the Commerce Clause is broad, and the courts are generally deferential. But all powers the Constitution enumerates are also limited, and these limits—unique to each power—must be meaningful and enforceable by the legal system.

The Chief Justice's compounding errors deprive the taxing power of any viable limiting principles. Article I, section 8 gives Congress an independent grant of power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States." Taxes must originate in the House, the political body designed to be most responsive to voters. There are also important additional safeguards on the type of exactions known as "direct taxes."

Indirect taxes—"duties, imposts and excises"—are taxes on activities and products. They are passed on by a seller, triggered by a transaction and more or less optional: Consumers don't have to buy taxed goods and services. Direct taxes, on the other hand, are those that the federal government is empowered to impose on individuals as citizens. They cannot be avoided because they are levied on the existence of people.

America has its origins in a rebellion against arbitrary and pernicious taxation and the Framers wanted to make it extremely difficult to impose or raise direct taxes. These can easily morph into plenary police powers, the regulation of private behavior and conduct that the Constitution vests in the states. For this reason, while the taxing power in addition to raising revenue can achieve regulatory results, those regulatory results must be constitutional themselves.

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That boundary held for 225 years until Thursday's ruling, as the Court had repeatedly struck down Congress's efforts to arrogate to itself police powers under either the Commerce Clause or the taxing power. The Chief Justice ruled instead that the mandate was an unconstitutional exercise of federal police powers under the Commerce Clause, only to transform the taxing power into a license for the federal government to impose taxes whose defining feature is commanding people as members of society.

Chief Justice Roberts concedes that "Congress's ability to use its taxing power to influence conduct is not without limits" and that in the 19th and early 20th centuries the Supreme Court "policed these limits aggressively, invalidating punitive exactions obviously designed to regulate behavior otherwise regarded at the time as beyond federal authority." But then he writes that "more recently we have declined to closely examine the regulatory motive or effect of revenue-raising measures."

His error—or more likely, his deliberate sleight-of-hand—is that this modern jurisprudence does not deal with direct taxes but indirect taxes and income taxes. Income taxes were authorized in 1913 by the Sixteenth Amendment, which was necessary to bypass the other important limit on direct taxes, called apportionment.

The Constitution says that "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken." Colloquially, direct taxes are known as head taxes and they must be spread among the states according to population. Apportionment's onerous limits were meant to protect against abuse and sectional favoritism. If Congress uses direct taxes, the residents of South Carolina will pay the same overall share as Massachusetts, and so forth.

But apportionment would defeat the mandate tax's "whole point," the Chief Justice writes, since every state will have a different percentage of citizens that are uninsured. So he cryptically rules that "A tax on going without health insurance does not fall within any recognized category of direct tax."

But if not a direct tax, then what kind of tax is it? It is not an indirect tax because it applies to a failure to purchase something, what the Chief Justice calls "an omission," not an optional transaction. It is not a tax on income because that merely hits "accessions to wealth," not what people choose or choose not to do with those accessions.

The result is that Chief Justice Roberts has created the only tax in U.S. history that exceeds its own constitutional limits and is meant to execute powers that the Court otherwise ruled were invalid. His discovery erases the limiting principle—apportionment—that constrains the taxing power for everything besides income and excises.

In the process, Chief Justice Roberts has hollowed out dual federal-state sovereignty and eviscerated the very limit on the Commerce Clause that he posits elsewhere in his opinion and that has some conservatives singing his praises. From now on, Congress can simply regulate interstate commerce by imposing "taxes" whenever someone does or does not do something contrary to its desires.

The Chief Justice seems to understand this, so he tries to articulate his own new limiting principle for the tax power. His mandate tax isn't a mandate but merely a suggestion: choose to buy insurance or "pay money into the Federal Treasury, no more," an act he likens to a tax on gasoline. He also temporizes that "taxes that seek to influence conduct are nothing new."

True enough, but the punishments in the tax code for inactivity come in the form of not being able to claim benefits that Congress in its graces bestows. Such as: If you don't borrow to buy a home, you don't get a mortgage interest deduction.

Congress has never passed a tax on a lack of gasoline or a tax on a failure to buy gasoline, any more than Congress can regulate inactivity under the Commerce Clause by telling people to buy gasoline or else pay a penalty. The reality is that Washington would love to regulate the ordinary economic choices that used to be beyond its purview, and now it will be able to abuse the ad hoc "tax" permit that the Chief Justice has given it.

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The John-Roberts-as-Daniel-Webster school argues that the long-term limits on the Commerce Clause and other aspects of the ruling are a good trade for the loss of upholding ObamaCare, and government excess has now reached its high-water mark and will recede over time. That false hope seems unlikely given the subversion of the taxing power and unleashing a general federal police power. This is equally harmful to liberty and dual sovereignty.

One possible saving grace is that this center-right country remains suspicious of taxation, and therefore the Chief Justice increases accountability somewhat through truth-in-labeling. But note how Democrats are already claiming that the ObamaCare mandate is not really the tax that is the only reason it was upheld.

White House chief of staff Jack Lew said Sunday that "The law is clear. It's called a penalty." Neither sentence is true. On Friday, the Obama re-election "truth team" was even less subtle in a memo titled "They're lying about ObamaCare" that made the same claim. Chief Justice Roberts has created a creature that is not a tax for political purposes but is a tax for constitutional purposes.

Chief Justice Roberts's ruling is careless about these bedrock tax questions, and they are barely addressed by either the Court's liberal or conservative wings. His ruling, with its multiple contradictions and inconsistencies, reads if it were written by someone affronted by the government's core constitutional claims but who wanted to uphold the law anyway to avoid political blowback and thus found a pretext for doing so in the taxing power.

If this understanding is correct, then Chief Justice Roberts behaved like a politician, which is more corrosive to the rule of law and the Court's legitimacy than any abuse it would have taken from a ruling that President Obama disliked. The irony is that the Chief Justice's cheering section is praising his political skills, not his reasoning. Judges are not supposed to invent political compromises.

"It is not our job," the Chief Justice writes, "to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices." But the Court's most important role is to protect liberty when the political branches exceed the Constitution's bounds, not to bless their excesses in the interests of political or personal expediency or both. On one of the most consequential cases he will ever hear, Chief Justice Roberts failed this most basic responsibility.

A version of this article appeared July 2, 2012, on page A10 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: A Vast New Taxing Power.

Reminders

Big picture reminders are sometimes necessary.  For instance:

• what is legal is not always just;
• what is permitted is not always prudent; and
• what is required is not always right.

Enduring Classical Benefits

In a recent post, I drew attention to a political and ethical tension:  the government's position in the United States to permit gendercide (or female foeticide), which is legal, and the ostensible position of the United States government with respect to other countries regarding the same permitted termination of life, which the Secretary of State has said should be prohibited.

Shortly after making that blog entry, I ran across the following discussion of ethical matters in ancient Greece.  It has to do with the development of moral theory and practice from Homeric myth to fifth-century Athens.  In his A Short History of Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre discusses the tug of war between nomos (law, custom, convention) and physis (nature), the order of society and the order of the universe, as it relates to one's understanding of virtue and moral expressions within cultures and across them.  I take it that this tug of war is parallel to the tension in the U.S. domestic approach to gendercide through selective abortion and its foreign approach to the same question.

I mention Prof. MacIntyre's discussion for another reason.  It is often asked, Of what benefit or enduring significance are the humanities and especially the study of classics?  One answer might be that such study helps us to understand ourselves, our institutions, and our moral theory and practice -- and to make informed judgments about them -- in ways that we might not do without classical knowledge and some reflection.

I offer the following, then, as evidence of the enduring benefits of a classical education.  The tension in the U.S. is not new.  The Athenians, too, were conflicted.  Who knew, right, that an account of the development of moral reasoning in ancient Greece could be, well, just so relevant to contemporary discussions?  It is.  What, then, might we learn about justice from their experience and moral investigations that can help to improve ours?

Between Homer and writers five centuries later there is a great change in Greek myths about the order of the universe.  The Homeric myth does reflect, though with much distortion, the workings of an actual society in which a close form of functional organization is presupposed by the moral and evaluative forms of appraisal which are in use.  The later assertions of order in the universe reflect not a structure that is, but one that was, or one that is struggling to survive.  They are conservative protests against the disintegration of the older forms and the transition to the city-state.  The myths themselves cannot but open up the question of the difference between the order of the universe and the order of society.  But above all, this question is sharpened by a widening awareness of radically different social orders.

         The impact of the Persian invasions, of colonization, of increase in trade and therefore in travel, all these brings home the fact of different cultures.  The result is that the distinction between what holds good in Egypt but not in Persia, or in Athens but not in Megara, on the one hand, and what is the case universally as part of the order of things becomes overwhelmingly important.  The question asked about any moral rule or social practice is, Is it part of the essentially local realm of nomos (convention, custom) or of the essentially universal realm of physis (nature)?  Linked to this is of course the question, Is it open to me to choose what rules I shall make my own or what restraints I shall observe (as it may be open to me to choose which city I shall live in and what therefore shall be the nomos by which I live)? or does the nature of the universe set limits upon what I may legitimately choose?  (MacIntyre, Short History, 10-11)

… Different cities observe different customs and different laws.  Does and should justice differ from city to city?  Does justice hold only within a given community between citizens? or should it hold also between cities?  The Athenians condemn the character of Alcibiades because he did not observe the restraints of dikaiosune in his behavior within the Athenian state.  But their own envoys behave just like Alcibiades in their attitude toward other states.  That is, they equate what is morally permissible with what the agent has the power to do. (MacIntyre, Short History, 11-12)

Safe, Legal, and Targeted

Is it morally permissible to terminate a human life based upon that life-holder's sex (male or female) as long as the decision to terminate is free rather than forced?

This is essentially the question that was voted on in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday.  Technically, the question was the legality, not the morality, but never mind since those are confused in promulgating legislation that is supposed to reflect society's sense of justice, or what is right, which is to say what is moral.  Congress took up the question of selective abortion -- i.e., the termination of the life -- of a healthy and developing human fetus based on sex, especially if the baby is female.

The answer that Congress gave in its procedural way was yes.  Freedom of one's individual will is so important, evidently, that it allows one legally to discriminate lethally against another.  Free termination of a life based upon sex discrimination is legally permissible.  The message of the government, then, is that it is morally acceptable in the United States.

Perhaps reflecting home country bias, forced and frequently selective termination as practiced, for example, in China and India, is, however, not acceptable -- in fact it is condemnable -- according to U.S. standards.  This practice in China and India is commonly called gendercide, or female foeticide.  The definition includes the deliberate determination to commit the killing act.  Whether one party is forced or free, a deliberate determination to kill an innocent is made.

Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton has said that this termination of a female life based on the fact that the child is female should be stopped:

Obviously, there’s work to be done in both India and China, because the infanticide rate of girl babies is still overwhelmingly high, and unfortunately with technology, parents are able to use sonograms to determine the sex of a baby, and to abort girl children simply because they’d rather have a boy.

So has the typically ineffective United Nations.

This raises a number of moral questions that relate to very practical considerations of wisdom:

• Should one's individual freedom of decision be held in such high esteem that the state entrenches lethal sexual discrimination of females?
• Could one legitimately call these targeted killings?
• Why is the practice in one country acceptable but not in another?
• What is the real "war on women"?

Suppressing Sympathy

"Being human, their moral sense requires them to manage distress by reinterpreting the situation so as to justify the cruelty or indifference."

This is how James Q. Wilson summarizes in his book The Moral Sense a discussion of the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram.  In those experiments, unsuspecting participants were asked to administer increasing dosages of electrical shock to a subject (really an actor; no one was actually harmed) if the subject answered questions incorrectly.  These words by Mr. Wilson appear in the context of his arguing for an inherent moral knowledge and impulse in humans.

Professor Wilson's point is not Professor Milgram's, namely, that humans will commit despicably horrendous actions against their otherwise closely held moral convictions if they believe that they are aligned with some authority in doing so.  Although this seems true, Mr. Wilson's larger point is that people justify these actions in various ways precisely because they have a moral sense by virtue simply of being human.  One reflection of this moral sense is sympathy.

Mr. Wilson notes that in the experiment, "[f]or most people, only the objections of other people like themselves (that is, like them in being 'ordinary people,' not 'scientists') made them inclined to ignore the instructions of an authority figure" (52).  Authority can be so strong an influence that we need to feel solidarity with others like us and to know that someone is sympathetic to our controversial viewpoint in order, sometimes, to act in accordance with conscience, or our natural moral sense.

But also because a natural human sympathy for the victim butts up against the compulsion many feel at the direction of an authority figure, in all manner of situations we tend to distance ourselves from the victim in order to suppress our sympathy for her, that is, someone with whom we might otherwise identify:  "When we need to reassure ourselves as to the propriety of following orders that require us to inflict pain on others, we denigrate the victims. ... We often attribute to people qualities that make them appear to deserve a fate that has befallen them" (52).  We might call them "scum" or "racists" or "animals" or "deluded religionists" or "backward."  We might assert that they are "doing this to themselves" or "she was asking for it."  Whatever the form of denigration, what occurs is a conscience-alleviating shifting of culpability through a distancing of their persons from ours.  Hence the statement that opened this post:  "Being human, their moral sense requires them to manage distress by reinterpreting the situation so as to justify the cruelty or indifference" (53).

I have recently pondered how other people, regular people, if you will, not just those in experiments or engaged in criminal activity, justify actions such as cruelty or indifference to which outside observers may legitimately object as unethical -- and how routinely this occurs.

For instance, I have friends who work in business.  Many report working in environments of demoralized culture and high turnover.  This combination creates a negative feedback loop of increased demoralization, which leads to more turnover, which leads to increased demoralization, and so on.  Although these firms attract, surprisingly sometimes, talented individuals, most end up leaving.  One friend, who is employed by a small firm of less than 25 people, reports that over the last four years 22 employees have left for one reason or another.  The number leaving per year has been mostly consistent.  If you assume a constant figure of 24 employees at the firm, that comes to 22% turnover on average per year.  Somewhere between 1 out of 5 and 1 out of 4 employees pass through the revolving door each year!

What is most noteworthy, however, is not just the staggering rate of employee turnover but rather the employers' justification for it.  It is always the employee's fault.  It is repeatedly asserted, I am informed, "There's nothing we could have done."  "It just wasn't a good fit."  "She left in order to shorten her commute by 5 minutes; that was really important to her."  "We did all that we could."  Even in the case of terminations, the euphemism is culpability-shifting, or a reluctance to assume full responsibility:  "We had to let her go" -- as if an outside authority compelled them to fire an employee who was disgruntled like all the rest.

A couple of illustrations make the same point.  From horticulture, although many and different types of employee apples are grafted into the firm's tree, it is, my friend is told, that all of the apples went bad, not that there is anything wrong with the tree.  At what point should one rethink that thesis?  From literature, no matter how many people tell the employing emperor that he is naked, he refuses to believe it.  But refusing to believe something does not mean that the proposition is false.

Why do people refuse to suspect that something might be unhealthy with the tree?  Why does the emperor refuse to believe that he is not wearing clothes?  Why does this happen routinely in our daily lives?

If Mr. Wilson is right about human sympathy and the tendency to suppress it, then it is perhaps because deep down, in the recesses of humanity, people are wrestling with a tension:  the impulse of sympathy, on the one hand, to other people whom the first group is hurting and the horrible realization at some level, on the other hand, that they are to blame.  And this realization is too much to bear for an unrepentant heart.

Where does this happen around us?  It does not only occur in exceptional instances, as the workplace illustration above makes clear.

Where does this happen within us?  After all, it is not only someone else's problem.  If we say that it is, we might just have evidence that some other suppression is at work.

Phronēsis, practical virtue, requires each of us to cultivate the natural sympathy with which we may be endowed, to avoid suppressing it unjustly, and to be vigilant to discern -- and quick to repent -- when we fail.

Why Nations Fail

In a previous post, I provided a link to an interview with Daron Acemoglu in which he explains various theories about the causes of income inequality.  The MIT economics professor and his Harvard collaborator James A. Robinson have written a new, popularly-targeted book on the fate of nations, Why Nations Fail:  The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.  The book addresses a similar subject although in sweeping historical and global perspective  (why do some nations become richer and others do not?) , and the authors advance one model for understanding it (because some governments develop inclusive political and economic institutions rather than extractive ones).  William Easterly of the New York University reviews it here in the March 24 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Leviathan & Liberty

Whatever one's ultimate opinion about any number of contemporary topics -- from the Affordable Care Act to the limits of executive power, from government regulation of health care to the promotion of individual and religious liberty -- The Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer made some keen observations about ten days ago with which everyone should wrestle.