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May 20th, 2011 | 10:11 am
A wonderful and provocative line from Mansfield’s essay, which offers much food for thought on the direction of our culture:
“Confidence in progress has now been replaced by postulation of change.”
It opens PL’s extract (at the link here); the whole thing is at City Journal, and worth reading.