George Weigel
Rescuers speak with a wounded local resident in central Kharkiv, Ukraine, January 2 at the site where a residential building was heavily damaged during a Russian missile attack. Photo: OSV News/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Reuters My friend and colleague Carl Trueman recently observed that “the West is no longer a consortium of serious cultures”. To which I am sorely tempted to add, “…or serious polities”. The two are connected, the cultural decay of the West being a not-insignificant factor in our descent into political infantilism. The exploration of that connection…
