Quotes from Matthew Stewart

This is the life of the mind in the twilight of the meritocracy: cliquish, careerist, and militantly committed to the mere appearance of objectivity.

And self-delusion in the upper economic reaches of the left risks turning the Democratic Party into a home for an affluent, educated elite that seeks to correct every form of injustice except the inequality

The present is an age of philosophy; and America, the empire of reason," said the American revolutionary Joel Barlow. 5 I aim to show that he was mostly right about that.

Human beings are not built to function in a radically unequal world.