NOTES FROM A DERELICT CULTURE

The essays in this book elaborate an overall view of the central predicament confronting the West today a theologicallyinspired terrorist movement the leftliberal beliefsystem that dominates the Western sensibility the plague of political correctness that devitalizes language and obscures truth and the almost universal opprobrium in which Americaand by extrapolation the historical endowment of Western civilizationis held by the official institutions of the international community and by liberal cultureFor too many years now we have practiced the rites of evasion craving asylum in blindness conciliation sophistry and equivocation Many flinch from expressing their convictions plainly fearing to offend their readers and imperil their professional credentials There is no more pressing requirement for us today than the obligation to seek the truth and to speak clearly boldly and without compromise an endeavor with which this book is fundamentally engaged