Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

The current president has successfully created an environment where intelligent people consider any criticism of his administration a tacit endorsement of his defeated rival in the general election. Many lamented this election as “the lesser of two evils.”

Some of those same folks will now suspend critical thinking in order to insulate the “winning” candidate from scrutiny as a direct result of this masterful manipulation. If forced to choose between losing an arm or a leg to cancer, we would all surely find reasons to justify our decision, despite the inevitable unpleasant outcome.

However, it would seem that a large number of the electorate would now endorse cancer in the limb that was spared, rather than find a way to save that limb as well.

RYAN A. SPENCE

Monongahela

CNN is working frantically to find their “source.” Look hard because it doesn’t exist. Whatever was left of CNN’s credibility is now gone!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2018

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Here are highlights from Stage 5 of the Tour of Spain.

Contemporary moral philosophy seldom changes the moral views of philosophers, much less the world. By and large, the positions that are advocated reflect the moral views of white, middle-class, liberal academicians living in an affluent, technological society. Even when they express views that divide opinions—say on abortion—one feels that lives are not touched. None of us are fetuses, only half of us are women, and relatively few women will face the decision to abort or not. Any argument about political positions outside the liberal consensus—right-wing libertarianism—takes place in a context that makes it an "academic" question. We are not about to abolish or drastically limit the state collectively, and there seems to be little we can do individually.

(Gerald Dworkin, "Making Meats End," review of Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer, The American Scholar 45 [autumn 1976]: 594, 596-7, at 594)