https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/03/08/liberalism-is-watered-down-fanaticism-a-thought-from-santayana/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:21:33 -0400<![CDATA[George Santayana is a marvelous spiritual cicerone: calm, decorous, quietly insightful in prose that is as elegant as it is disabused. His most famous mot&#8211;that &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it&#8221;&#8211;seems especially pertinent at the present moment when a corrosive amnesia about the dangers of socialism is epidemic. Among his books, Soliloquies in England and Character and Opinion in the United States are among my favorites (I contribute an essay to a new edition of the latter that Yale University Press is bringing out later this year).]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:48:33 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2009/03/08/liberalism-is-watered-down-fanaticism-a-thought-from-santayana-n115638