Sublime

Optimistic attempts to promote what is Clearly Right will be presented as a pursuit of the common good, but Scruton believes that the attitude underlying them is always “I”-based: it’s for the good of me and people whose views are generally indistinguishable from mine. To this “I” attitude Scruton contrasts the “we” attitude—not the most felicitous

As Western culture increases its speed in the race away from Christendom, as hostility to orthodox and evangelical Christianity increases and becomes increasingly legislated, we will eventually see a separation of the men from the boys. Which pastors will cave to worldly wisdom in fear for their own livelihoods and comfort, and which will fear God,

Dans From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun fait un balayage historique de cinq siècles de civilisation occidentale et identifie la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale comme le tournant décisif vers la décadence, la décomposition et l'effondrement de l'Occident. C'est après cette guerre que l'Occident a subi ce que Barzun appelle “The Great Switch”,

For the New Right, so-called “conservatives” have been willful or witless dupes of the left for decades. In contemporary terms, examples include Mitt Romney delivering to Massachusetts what would become the basis for Obamacare, President Bush appointing David Souter to the Supreme Court, and John McCain sponsoring campaign finance “reform.”

As the academic Michael Lind has argued, insurgents are right to oppose technocratic neoliberalism but wrong to embrace what he calls demagogic populism.

What distinguished his jeremiad from many other conservative screeds was his argument that the greatest threat was posed not by a few “extremists of the left,” but rather by “perfectly respectable elements of society.” The real enemies, he suggested, were “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts