Principles and Heresies

The Age of Modulation Presents its Great Debate

Who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind. In this election of 1960, which takes place in as dark an hour as the Republic has ever seen, we are paying the price for decades of progressive decay of civic and intellectual principle in our political life; for a century of apotheosis of the mere mass, the mere majority; for a century of witless dismemberment of the complex and delicate balances that made the American constitutional system the most formidable bastion of liberty ever created by men.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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The Age of Modulation Presents its Great Debate

Who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind. In this election of 1960, which takes place in as dark an hour as the Republic has ever seen, we are paying the price for decades of progressive decay of civic and intellectual principle in our political life; for a century of apotheosis of the mere mass, the mere majority; for a century of witless dismemberment of the complex and delicate balances that made the American constitutional system the most formidable bastion of liberty ever created by men.