Some months ago, on the old Opus Publicum, I called attention to Pater Edmund Waldstein’s lecture April 2014 lecture “Exhausted Democracy.” The talk is also available on Pater Edmund’s web-log, Sancrucensis, under the title “The Politics of Nostalgia”here, or in PDF here. I have been giving the contents of this talk/paper a great deal of thought lately, and I think you should as well. Perhaps liberalism isn’t the only ideology in play at the moment, but it is so dominant that it has made us effectively forget about all of the rest.
