The West Against Itself - Moral exceptionalism, the “long march,” and the road to a new tyranny.

The moral architecture of Western civilization rests upon two interlocking pillars of intrinsic worth: the inviolable dignity of the human person and the correlative demand for personal freedom. These standards, far from being contingent historical accidents, constitute the decisive ethical achievement of a specific civilizational lineage. That lineage unites the Hebraic insistence upon the equal standing of every soul before a transcendent moral law with the Greco-Roman discovery of rational inquiry, constitutional restraint, and the dignity of the free citizen. The resulting synthesis produced a culture capable of generating institutions—limited government, independent judiciary, scientific method, market exchange under rule of...