Rousseau & the origins of liberalism.

New Criterion | October 1, 1998| | Copyright

The modern world gives proof at every point that it is far easier to destroy institutions than to create them. Nevertheless, few people seem to understand this truth. Britain's Labor Party has embarked upon a series of "constitutional reforms" that can be relied upon to undermine the old authority of Parliament, but that will put no new authority in its place. The churches have initiated massive liturgical changes, so losing their old consolations, their old beliefs, and their old congregations without making converts among the young. From the curriculum reformers in schools ...

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