Introduction

Christopher lash's last book was published 26 years ago. Many on the modern right and some on the left think this book is important. But i don't think it is actually an important book. Most of what lash discusses here have been discussed for quite some time on the right. His clever use of jose otega gasets the revolt of the masses as parallel is muddled rather than incitful, even if it probably has caused the book to be remembered more than it would be otherwise. The reader's main emotion upon completing the book is therefore not a feeling of integrated insight, but simply sadness for a time when an author and his then readers could optimistically believe the monsters could