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Free Speech in an Age of Jihad

April 12, 2008 - 8:13 am - by Roger Kimball
SteveB
2008-04-13 13:13:00

You quote from James Burnham’s book Suicide of the West:

Modern liberalism does not offer ordinary men compelling motives for personal suffering, sacrifice, and death.

And you note that the book was published in 1964.

What else was happening in 1964? Well, that was also the year that civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner were were killed in Mississippi.