The Archangel Michael weighing the souls of the dead. Detail from Hans Memling’s triptych “The Last Judgment,” 1467–1471, National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn once asked, “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
A similar challenge eventually confronts every individual who takes up the cause of the New Right in relation to modernity, as we’re all to varying degrees and in varying manners captivated by the liberal narrative. (more…)