From the Wall Street Journal July 2, 2013 Kenneth Minogue writing in National Review, Nov. 18, 1991 An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The University, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretention with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat of the ideological enthusiast. A kind of adventure playground, carefully insulated from reality in order to prevent absent-minded professors from bumping into things as they explore transcendental realms, has become the institutional base for civilizational self-hatred.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:37:45 +0000
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