It is hard for a way of life whose priorities are secular, rationalist, materialist and utilitarian to produce a culture adequate to these values. For are not these values inherently anti-cultural? This, to be sure, was always a headache for industrial capitalism, which was never really able to spin a persuasive cultural ideology out of [...]
Sometime comrade-in-arms but allthetime Virginian Whet has been decrying the Tribune’s hiring of Jonah Goldberg for a while, now, and he enjoys reminding readers every time that Goldberg’s cover image for his book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning—a smiley face with a toothbrush mustache—comes [...]