Saturday, October 30, 2021

Roger Scruton's Humane Confessions & The Limits of Equity

The October 14, 2021 Law & Liberty e-newsletter was packed with great reading, starting with an essay about Justice Clarence Thomas and ending with a book review about Wokeism.

Stuck in the middle were two informative pieces. One was about Roger Scruton's Humane Confessions and the other on The Limits of Equity.

Here's an excerpt from both:

Roger Scruton's humane confessions

by Richard Reinsch | September 30, 2021

"Scruton speaks not only to conservatives but also to all of those who sense that our age has left us with a void at the center of our collective life, which must be filled by rededicating ourselves to harmonious living rather than to frenetic action, work, and diversion."

The Limits of Equity

Brian A. Smith | October 4, 2021

"...Rules of equality at least sometimes avoid the traps of our own partiality. This is not to say that rules cannot be abused, or that they always produce outcomes we desire. In practice, equity initiatives implicitly recognize our deficits here—if not our incapacity—in their reliance on schemes that systematically advance “disadvantaged” groups over “privileged” ones. They tend to reduce human beings into identity or affinity groups and work from that perspective."