It’s Spring! Cuckoo!

In Italy, there is the so-called Rivolta Blu (or “liberal” revolution). Among French intellectuals (avantgarde to all the world), libéralisme generates far more excitement today than socialism.

In Britain, as Margaret Thatcher pointed out in a biting partisan speech in London in late March—“It wouldn’t be spring, would it, without an occasional cuckoo”—there are still two old-fashioned bastions against dynamic capitalism: the cloister and the common room. An editorialist in the London Times added that the Church of England has always been socialist with the very smallest s, less for socialist reasons than from the ancient habits of feudalism.

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Michael Novak

Michael Novak was a Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.

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In Italy, there is the so-called Rivolta Blu (or “liberal” revolution). Among French intellectuals (avantgarde to all the world), libéralisme generates far more excitement today than socialism.

In Britain, as Margaret Thatcher pointed out in a biting partisan speech in London in late March—“It wouldn’t be spring, would it, without an occasional cuckoo”—there are still two old-fashioned bastions against dynamic capitalism: the cloister and the common room. An editorialist in the London Times added that the Church of England has always been socialist with the very smallest s, less for socialist reasons than from the ancient habits of feudalism.