TORONTO – “…was a text on my reading list in my last year at University. It is a study, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder in the 18th century, as a first and unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. The religious zealots (the Orange Order and the Family Compact still operating in post-war Toronto) it spawned have not disappeared But this is not about them …entirely.”
(“The revolution of the saints. A study in the origins of radical politics” by Michael Walzer, 1965)
While cynical American politicos reduce all debates to their succinct basic arguments: “do we have a dog in the fight”; more politely put, which interests are we defending and how will they nurture our purposes and improve our [economic] goals.
