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Thanks for a great 55 minutes!
I listened to it twice. Really good.
Twice!! You’re a great American!
I listened to the interview with Michael Anton on the Ricochet Podcast with Peter Robinson, Rob Long, and James Lileks and was most favorably impressed. This discussion too was all the more a delight.
I am an old man, living far from the United States, but with (adult) memories of the country back when when Prof. Anton was born. Then too it was divided, but that was, of course, before the “march through the institutions.” The stakes are surely now higher than any time in my lifetime.
It may be hard for the younger generations to understand how unpopular the left was in the old days. Having been, in my foolish youth, a part of it, I was astounded when the elites, including the media, began to support it. Now it all makes depressingly logical sense: it’s simply a matter of power.
I keep thinking of Harry Lime in The Third Man:
“Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat, I talk about the suckers and the mugs – it’s the same thing. They have their five-year plans, so have I.”
Then comes Holly Martins’ haunting line: “You used to believe in God…”