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1. For decades milquetoast conservatives have complained about the aggressive conquest of public and private institutions by the left, thoroughly convinced that these entities can remain entirely neutral in the face of cultural pressures...
2. In lean times they whine about creeping socialism and wring their hands, and in fat times they hug their flags and sing praises to baseball and apple pie.
But still they insist that culture can remain outside the public square.
But still they insist that culture can remain outside the public square.
3. “I will not impose my culture on anyone else,” they proudly state, as if culture is an old tool lying dormant in the woodshed to be retrieved only when necessity requires.
They don’t realize that culture is liquid, and that we are all swimming in it.
They don’t realize that culture is liquid, and that we are all swimming in it.
4. The neutral public square was a useful fiction in fat times, but now that we are decades into the lean, it has become a coping mechanism. Conservatives who comfort themselves with this abstraction are only accelerating the decline of this nation and the loss of our way of life
5. Culture can be ignored and denied, but it cannot be extinguished. This was never the purpose of the American project. Our institutions, our system of government, even the Constitution- all these were not exceptional because of their ingenious design...
6. The American project and all its trappings were exceptional because they belonged to a great and mighty people, a people with a history, an ethos, and a culture...
7. Convincing ourselves that libertarian neutrality is the natural end of pluralism may have unleashed great wealth, but it has also transformed the American nation into an economic opportunity zone, eroding the culture and values of a once great people...
8. We are now at risk of losing it all, and those who refuse to recognize the importance of culture for fear of “imposing” it on others are simply burying their heads in the sand
We are wallowing in the ashes of a superior world, and unless we rekindle the fire, we won’t make it
We are wallowing in the ashes of a superior world, and unless we rekindle the fire, we won’t make it
