Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Right Focus, Wrong Target

If you want to protect the family, the foe is not the Enlightenment so much as the Modern State, which is jealous of its power and seeks to prevent families from gathering strength with other families.

Forget the Enlightenment—Focus on the Family

How the West Really Lost God
by Mary Eberstadt.
Templeton Press, 2013.
Hardcover, 268 pages, $21.

A. W. R. HAWKINS

In light of that, a review of Burnham: ‘Only Power Restrains Power’
James Burnham’s The Machiavellians at Seventy.
FRANCIS P. SEMPA

Appeals to justice, natural law, and so on are ineffectual in the face of a foe determined to hold power and exercise it as he sees fit. He may be sincere in his disagreement, but a sincere believer in political error who seeks to carry out his agenda is still a threat to the common good.

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