We live in cynical times. Ours is an epoch in which, more often than not, values are trumped by political expediency. It is a time when self-righteousness masquerades as morality. Those who claim -- and truly believe -- that theirs is a profoundly moral political movement see that movement's standards repeatedly compromised by an unseemly pragmatism. Perhaps the compromises represent merely a balancing of values -- the creation of a hierarchy of principle. Whatever its purpose, its effect is a surrender of moral authority. It represents that which conservatives have consistently condemned: a situational ethic, an unattractive moral relativism. Politics has become the enemy of principle, and its practitioners have, for electoral advantage, set aside their more basic values. But political philosophy is a subset of ethics -- man's relationship to man -- and it is -- and must be -- profoundly grounded in principle. It must be a uniquely moral project. America is at a time of unprecedented historical extremity. Its institutions are deliberately undermined by a national administration....
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