“It seems that when an impending catastrophe will affect them personally, in their very flesh and blood, intellectuals start to think more clearly about the legal and institutional prerequisites of a free society.”
Ideas That Kill http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_diarist.html (Winter 2000).
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