This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues
that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the
future. It rejects both "merit" and historical redress as principles for
guiding public policy. It shows how "peace" movements have led to war
and to needless casualties in those wars. It argues that "equality" is
neither right nor wrong, but meaningless.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice
end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up
promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents
many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own
beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and
dangerous erosion of the fundamental principles of freedom -- and the
quiet repeal of the American revolution.