Yes Virtue is a Prerequisite of Liberty, but Liberty Encourages Virtue

Remembering a brilliant essay by Charles Murray on landlords and public morality

Here Sam Karnick joins in an ongoing discussion of whether a virtuous people is a precondition for a republic, quoting at length what appear to be quite interesting essays from Samuel Gregg of the American Institute for Economic Research. Both men, on the whole, come down for the notion that only a virtuous people are fit for republican government, or …