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Steve Hayward talks this week with author Michael Walsh about his new book, The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West. Walsh has encyclopedic knowledge of high culture from Homer to Rocky IV, with detours to opera, novels, fine art, and classical music along the way, revealing deep layers of political and cultural meaning and explaining why the cultural struggles of our time are the key to winning our political battles. He also throws down on the defects of the modern conservative movement.
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Mr. Walsh seems to have his historical timeline mixed up. He says the West came to know Aristotle through the Arabs because the Arabs sacked Constantinople in the 15th century, where they came into possession of the Aristotelian works lost to the West. But the re-introduction of Aristotle to the West occurred in the 12th century, most famously in the work of Thomas Aquinas, long before the sack of Constantinople