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Published · transcript-backedCass Sunstein: belief
22 Jun 2016 Conversations with Tyler Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason)
“What I think Zhou Enlai said about the French Revolution is true here: it’s too soon to tell.”
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- Cass Sunstein
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- 22 Jun 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…One of Lord Acton’s lesser-known aphorisms is that “Great men are almost always bad men.” Jedi are generally always great men and women. With that in mind, if Luke really cared about the galaxy, do you think he should have let himself be the last of the Jedi and gone into self-exile at the end of Episode VI? What I think Zhou Enlai said about the French Revolution is true here: it’s too soon to tell. [laughs] I don’t have a view on the French Revolution, I should add, and I’m against communism, I should add. [laughter] But whether Luke made a mistake or not in going into exile, as he evidently did — we need to know more. So, stay tuned. Can I just say something? He went into exile after training people. My assumption would be that he didn’t train people anymore, so — .…
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