“Modern liberalism, for most liberals, is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.” –James Burnham, Suicide of the West (1964) [excerpt]. Though Burnham’s “Suicide of the West”, which I read about ten or more years ago, ruminated against communism it is perhaps even more relevant today.
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