The Fault, Dear Brutus

There are many ways of recording the agony of Western civilization: science fiction is one, the Orwellian prediction is another, and socioeconomic analyses of a Marxist character are yet a third. All these forms are violent in their own way, and thus adopt the style they denounce; they belong to this age as symptoms belong to illness.

Russell Kirk’s approach is gentle in comparison, detached and didactic. I suspect part of his success with the public lies in his calm temper and non-vituperative language. People feel that here is a real conservative, not a radical of any sort, not even a radical rightist. The title of the present book is, they probably think, a contradiction.

TM

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Thomas Molnar

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There are many ways of recording the agony of Western civilization: science fiction is one, the Orwellian prediction is another, and socioeconomic analyses of a Marxist character are yet a third. All these forms are violent in their own way, and thus adopt the style they denounce; they belong to this age as symptoms belong to illness.

Russell Kirk’s approach is gentle in comparison, detached and didactic. I suspect part of his success with the public lies in his calm temper and non-vituperative language. People feel that here is a real conservative, not a radical of any sort, not even a radical rightist. The title of the present book is, they probably think, a contradiction.