Curzon shares one of his favorite Kaplan essays, the final chapter of Coming Anarchy, The Dangers of Peace:
The Italian political theorist Gaetano Mosca noted in “The Ruling Class” (1939) that universal peace is something to be feared, because it could come about “only if all the civilized world where to belong to a single social type, to a single religion, and if there were to be an end disagreements as to the ways in which social betterment can be attained… even granting that such a world could be realize, it does not seem to us a desirable sort of world.”Of course, there is often nothing worse than war and violent death. However, the truism that bears repeating is that peace, as a primary goal, is dangerous because it implies that you’ll sacrifice any principal for the sake of it.
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We think we know what political correctness is: we have no idea how intensely suffocating public discourse could become in a truly unified and peaceful world.