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Article: Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline.(Book review)
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- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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When Slouching Towards Gomorrah (1) first appeared, it bore on its dust jacket the following words of mine praising the book and its distinguished author:
The ideological triumph of liberalism among American elites, far
from bringing the individual and social enlightenment it promised,
has produced unprecedented decay. The principal victims of this
decay are the poorest and most vulnerable among us, those most in
need of a healthy culture. Bork courageously and boldly states
these truths. A judge as wise as Solomon has become a prophet as
powerful as Isaiah. (2)
That is what I thought then, and I believe it even more firmly now. It ...