fred
2008-07-07 16:02:57
I think there are many causes for the decline of the intellectual life in the West. Not one of them gets the ring for being THE cause. Marxism, deconstructionism (Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan), and femminist ideology all play a role. Through out it all, the fact that conservative or even slightly Right-of-center academics have to shut up and pretend to be something else testifies to how vicious and vindictive the Left is: it will brook NO OPPOSITION. In a word, totalitarianism is on the march, and now it is linking with Islam, the oldest totalitarianism, to attack the West.
