![]() ![]() And Populism and Atavism must be stomped out according to modern Progressive politics. It’s gloriously democratic, nay the inexorable Progress of History when we like it and rude Populism and Atavism when we don’t. We believe in the consistency of the wisdom of crowds.Įxcept, of course, when we don’t. Is it barbarism that we face? Or is it progress? Many claim that we cannot possibly be facing barbarism since we are a democratic society-and the vox populi is the vox dei. It is also the question of the diagnosis. Yet it’s not just the answer of transcendent religion that is controverted. Kimball, is “controverted, even by many conservatives” is a great part of our problem today. ![]() Francis and Goethe” we end up with “pretty thin soup.” The dilemma for mankind is that culture is not enough and that in the end, as Eliot had it, “you must be either a naturalist or a supernaturalist.” That this claim, says Mr. Eliot’s observation that when we “boil down Horace, the Elgin Marbles, St. ![]() Kimball closes by brooding on the impotence of much modern conservative reaction to the “onslaught of barbarism,” probably because political struggle isn’t enough. It’s not just the daring of a college building a beautiful building in classical style in 2019, but it’s that it would have “a cross on the roof above its main entrance. In his “Notes & Comments” column in the November issue of the New Criterion, editor Roger Kimball dilates on the truly daring nature of the new Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College, designed by the eminent architect Duncan Stroik. Legutko speak in a classroom, the irony was that the episode confirmed his very point that liberal democratic societies have become in many ways just as barbarous and oppressive as communism… Though 40 brave students gathered to hear Prof. Ryszard Legutko gained fame this spring when he was informed by Middlebury College’s president that his lecture was canceled. ![]()
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