High philosophy from my subway ride just ended:

The risk of Enlightenment objectivity is that by defining “truth” in terms of how universal it is, we open ourselves to tyranny by the weakest link. Fear of this tyranny underlies most of the tensions in today’s world. This fear of the obligations owed to objectivity easily supplants the old pre-Enlightenment fear of malice by a foreign subjectivity. The complete equivalence of the two fears seems to me a complete rebuttal of the premises of the Enlightenment.