Sunday, February 01, 2009

Western Strength

Roger Scruton wrote a thought provoking essay , Forgiveness and Irony: What makes the West strong.

Here Scruton echoes the observation and warning of Jean Francois Revel about western nations and their self-loathing.
What is needed is not to reject citizenship as the foundation of social order but to provide it with a heart. And in seeking that heart, we should turn away from the apologetic multiculturalism that has had such a ruinous effect on Western self-confidence and return to the gifts that we have received from our Judeo-Christian tradition.

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