I think I accumulated my first 10 thoughts for our tenth anniversary online. I hoped to have one big one or 20 new ones in honor of our twentieth anniversary next year, but I m borrowing from previous editions to note the occasion today. It was 20 years ago this weekend 20 years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow that John Hinderaker went to Blogger and set up
I think I accumulated my first 10 thoughts for our tenth anniversary online. I hope I ll have one big one or 20 new ones in honor of our twentieth anniversary next year, but in the meantime I m going to borrow from previous editions to note the occasion today. It was 19 years ago this weekend 19 years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow that John Hinderaker went
Descent of the adversary culture
Dartmouth Professor of English Jeffrey Hart opened my mind to the great tradition and more during the four years I was his student. A long-time senior editor at National Review, Professor Hart contributed “The secession of the intellectuals” to NR’s 15th anniversary issue in 1970. Thinking of Power Line’s own 15th anniversary a few years back, I returned to that essay. NR editor Rich Lowry kindly arranged for the publication of the essay online to help us celebrate the occasion.
The essay hit me with the force of revelation at the time. Some of the contemporary references date the piece. The situation described in 1970 has deteriorated considerably over the past 50 years, yet the essay pierces to the heart of the matter and the heart of the matter abides. Making the necessary changes, the essay reads like it could have been written yesterday. Here is the opening: