Torturing the tabula rasa into a culture war argument is more than a little ironic, given that the people most frequently identified with the concept are genera

Torturing the tabula rasa into a culture war argument is more than a little ironic, given that the people most frequently identified with the concept are generally pretty high up on lists of “great men.” (It becomes even more ironic when you realize that the tabula rasa was itself a borrowed concept in both Descartes’ and Locke’s writing.)