Homer without the Gods (or, the Nihilism of Cormac McCarthy)
The man therefore who does what he ought moves steadily towards his fate and his death. It is defeat and not victory that lies at the end. To understand this is itself a virtue;...
Daily Archive: July 6, 2011
The Conscience of a Liberal
Despite modern liberalism’s sweeping scope, no one seems to know quite what it is. Liberalism appeared somewhere in the sixteenth century—“St. George, in the guise of Rationality,” as Kenneth Minogue puts it—to slay the...
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