Myron Magnet, a National Humanities Medalist, is the author of Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution (Encounter Books) and The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735–1817 (W.W. Norton & Company).
When government presumes to reshape society, the result is likely to be gory.
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