QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The Jews in Central Europe welcomed the Russian Revolution but it ended badly for them. The tacit alliance between the neo-cons and the Christian right is less easily understood. I can imagine a similarly disillusioning outcome … The radical right and the radical left see liberalism’s appeal to reason and tolerance as the denial of their uniform ideology. Every democracy needs a liberal fundament, a Bill of Rights enshrined in law and spirit, for this alone gives democracy the chance for self-correction and reform. Without it, the survival of democracy is at risk. Every genuine conservative knows this.” – Fritz Stern, scholar of Nazism, in the New York Times.