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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Crumbling Secular Foundations of Pluralistic Democracy

George Weigel surveys the spiritual hollowness that has overtaken the United Kingdom. To the extent that the public morality of Great Britain and the United States rests upon the shifting standards of public opinion alone, we are headed toward political and social oblivion.