Clark Ruper

Love your enemies: why human respect is the key to victory

January 24, 2024

Ethics

When I was in college, my primary motivator for activism was anger. No, that doesn't even accurately describe my mindset at the time. Fury would probably be the more correct term. I was an emerging libertarian before there was any broader impulse or community behind the term. I was convinced that I knew how things should be. Anyone who disagreed with me was a lazy coward at best, at worst, a closeted communist. And, oh boy, there were plenty of them at the University of Michigan. Famous for being a hotbed of radicalism and progressive elitism since the 1960s, there was no shortage of reasons