The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

The great struggle of the twentieth century was between liberalism and totalitarianism.

Un libro es un mundo en sí mismo, un universo que se abre ante nuestros ojos.

民主城邦的基础是自由权。