The giants of the age are going. Gone are Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher, and Vaclav Havel. Instead we have Barack Obama and dozens like him trying to obscure the cracks in the foundation as edifices crumble.
Richard Fernandez
The men of the hour synchronize their exquisitely accurate watches without having learned to tell the time. They scrutinize the compass, while declaring that East and West are all the same to them.
Is it 3:00 a.m. yet? And if the phone rings what should be said? Since Noam Chomsky once likened Havel’s aspirations to an “embarrassingly silly and morally repugnant Sunday School sermon,” one would guess the answer is “anything.” To open the door but never to step through it; to notice the modern Berlin Wall but never to challenge it; to observe the fact of the slavery and never once mention it since that would be judgmental — that is the hallmark of today’s post-Sunday School Man.
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