A Conflict of Visions

Thomas Sowell's Constrained and Unconstrained Visions

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
— Walter Lippmann

The great poet-philosopher Samuel Coleridge once wrote that “Every man is born a…