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Article: Importance of being reasonable.(A)(Commentary)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2001
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Byline: Balint Vazsonyi
Do you know the feeling when, as if someone had flicked a switch, a thousand-watt light bulb comes on inside your head? It happened to me the other day when I realized that two words: "reasonable" and "unreasonable" account for America's uniqueness as much as any other attribute.
Contrary to prevailing (classic Marxist-Leninist) thinking that economic conditions provide the foundations and everything else is "superstructure," the truth is the other way around. Our spectacular economic success is the result of a unique legal-moral foundation upon which a successful political system could be built.
One of the ...