The Great Liberal Death Wish

The Bishop of Woolwich the other day quoted some observations I had made to the effect that Liberalism (in its general, not particular, sense) would be seen historically as the great destructive force of our time, and its exponents—the Gilbert Murrays, Eleanor Roosevelts, Bertrand Russells, etc., etc.—as far outdoing Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler in the havoc they made. To the Bishop this notion was so extravagantly and intrinsically absurd that it must, he contended, be considered as automatically invalidating any views I might hold or express on any subject. To me, on the other hand, it is so obvious as to be incontrovertible.

Hitler, Stalin Forgotten