Tag Archives: Liberty

Liberty: John Stuart Mill

Posted on February 21, 2014 by William Holland

“Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.  Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to … Continue reading →

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What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?

Posted on August 14, 2011 by William Holland

The North African Catholic Church throughout the last remaining centuries before the fall of Rome was the most fertile intellectual region before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.  I don’t say that in a cavalier way, for the Church … Continue reading →

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Mamuel Ayau: Champion Of Liberty

Posted on September 28, 2010 by William Holland

Very few people ever get to see their most ardent desires realized.  Manuel Ayau was fortunate to see most. Laid to rest in a Greek Orthodox Monastery that now houses his family crypt, this little known man is the strength … Continue reading →

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John Paul II: The Defeat Of Modernity & A New Birth Of Freedom

Posted on August 27, 2010 by William Holland

Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II had much in common.  Aron and the French left were ardent in their support of a secular humanism that had its birth in 1789, Berlin was a deracinated Jew … Continue reading →

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Irving Kristol, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz: Marxian Shylocks & The Political Incubus Of Failure

Posted on July 17, 2010 by William Holland

The cherished yet divided life of diasporic Jews in America exemplified in Kissenger, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Irving Kristol, Isaiah Berlin, Norman Podhoretz, Einstein and hosts of other brilliant minds relieved from the tyranny of Fascism in Europe was on full … Continue reading →

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