For reasons that should be obvious (particularly if you’ve already read the rest of this issue of NR), this is not an ideal time to be assigned the task of writing the Happy Warrior column. One needn’t be a passionate opponent of gay marriage, or a fan of the Confederate flag, or much concerned about the accounting techniques of Obamacare to fear that the rule of reason and the authority of law have taken flight, while will and passion sit on the throne, unopposed.
The intellectual in me — homunculus though he may be — wants to say that we are living in a Romantic moment. I do not mean in the Hollywood sense, but in the philosophical. Isaiah Berlin argued that Romanticism represented
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