Revolution, Inside Out

Perhaps the most puzzling phenomenon of our puzzling age is the spectacle of American Liberalism, an entrenched and listless orthodoxy, pluming itself as “dissent.” Critics of American society are unanimous, to the point of tedium, in proclaiming us a nation bereft of verve and spirit. And the drab conformity they discern, by the tests of ideological congruity and regnant power, is Liberalism itself. Liberal doctrine pervades our grade schools and our colleges, churches and civic clubs, the mass media and the counsels of government. The “lonely crowd” and the “organization man” are the progeny of Liberal teaching.

But while the Liberal rules the land, he is loath to abandon his cherished role as the Outsider. Never mind that he has thickened around the hams, and dozed off in a rocking chair by the White House chimney. In his imagination, he will forever play the rakehell of his antic youth, forever the heretic and breaker of idols.

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M. Stanton Evans

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Perhaps the most puzzling phenomenon of our puzzling age is the spectacle of American Liberalism, an entrenched and listless orthodoxy, pluming itself as “dissent.” Critics of American society are unanimous, to the point of tedium, in proclaiming us a nation bereft of verve and spirit. And the drab conformity they discern, by the tests of ideological congruity and regnant power, is Liberalism itself. Liberal doctrine pervades our grade schools and our colleges, churches and civic clubs, the mass media and the counsels of government. The “lonely crowd” and the “organization man” are the progeny of Liberal teaching.

But while the Liberal rules the land, he is loath to abandon his cherished role as the Outsider. Never mind that he has thickened around the hams, and dozed off in a rocking chair by the White House chimney. In his imagination, he will forever play the rakehell of his antic youth, forever the heretic and breaker of idols.