Was Oswald Spengler right? Are we approaching the end of Western Civilization- or at least that West we knew? Perhaps Russia’s President Putin will preserve a piece of it, like the Irish monks who transcribed and hid the works of Aristotle and Plato during the Viking invasions.
The shifting baseline syndrome requires today’s people disavowing things written 10 years ago, even five years ago, but those books, articles, whitepapers and radio broadcasts are actually ahead of their time . . . And what is that expiration date for good, sound, righteous news and writing and broadcasting? I see more and more young