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Tag: Richard M. Weaver
When Victory is Defeat: Hysterical Optimism and the Squandering of a Nation
In the landscape of a nation perpetually at war, a peculiar and dangerous psychological phenomenon has taken root. It is a sentiment that masquerades as faith, as resilience, as pragmatic hope. But in truth, it is a kind of fever, a desperate and energetic denial of a grim reality. The…
The Unowned Nation of Tenants
In 1948, as the State of Israel was forged in the crucible of war, the American philosopher Richard M. Weaver published a book that served as a profound and chilling diagnosis of the modern world’s maladies. In Ideas Have Consequences, he argued that the West’s turn from transcendent truths had…