T. O’Connor: I am a great admirer of Burke (does anybody in Ireland read him any more?) so thank you for the compliment! BTW, an Irish email acquaintance prone to wax indignant about Gitmo has been very quiet since I told her I’d much rather be a prisoner in Gitmo than a kid in an Irish industrial school circa 1950. I too have had it with Irish moral preening (when it comes to zealous self-righteousness, the Irish leftists I have known give any of my grade school nuns a run for their money. They’ve replaced devotion to the Holy Name and Sacred Heart with fealty to St. Bono and St. Bob Geldof). They can’t blame the abuses detailed in the Ryan report on the Yanks or the Brits.
Paul of Alexandria: “The Screwtape Letters” are, indeed, a good guide to the Progressive mindset.
