Extremists Love Children.

Why do Radicals always need other people's families?

I don’t claim to be a political scientist or a historian, but I know enough to spot a pattern. Across the radical regimes and utopian philosophers I’ve read (people who promise to re-engineer society and create “heaven” on earth) one thing never changes: they are intensely interested in other people’s families.

In almost all cases, they move to either r…