Entries by Daniel J. Mahoney

The Crisis of the West Revisited: Self-Flagellation and the Great Liberal Death Wish

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This crisis is nothing new. From Sydney to London to untold numbers of American college campuses, we hear incendiary cries for destroying the Jewish state, for a new Jihad or Holy War, all in the name of an ostensibly noble and just “anti-colonialist” struggle. Tens of thousands march in major European cities, and with frenzied […]

Populism Rightly Understood

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Populists need to investigate the moral grounds on which ordered liberty is based. The conservative tradition has always been wary of populism in the form of an untutored mob, an undisciplined populus, or tyrannical majorities. It particularly fears the moral anarchy that accompanies the undermining of sound tradition and salutary self-restraint. That does not mean […]

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