Saturday, February 21, 2004

The Virtue Nazi Author Christopher Phillips was a guest today on NPR's Morning Edition.  He travels the world leading discussion groups he calls Socrates Cafes. Feb. 21, 2004 -- Phillips fears that the kind of conversation most of us experience -- browbeating, talking through one another -- is literally destroying America. He proposes to revive a kind of anti-guru philosophy in which the questions are more important than the answers. One of the questions Phillips asked during a session recorded for the program was "What is virtue?"   My answer to that would be, virtue is never having to read a book by William Bennett. 10:58:57 AM