Well-deserved praise

… Paul Johnson (1937-2023): A Valediction | The Russell Kirk Center. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… this vital intellectual history is not taught in the schools, nor do our mass media manage to give it adequate attention, with extremes of militant cultural Leftism and commercial-libertarian nihilism dominant not only in the USA but all over the West: “radical chic” oscillating with pervasive, collective amnesia, attention-deficit disorder, and “amusing ourselves to death.”