
Can We/Should We Save the "West"?
Classical Wisdom Speaks
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Are We in Charge of Saving the West?
CNN's John Sutter asks why intellectuals and elites don't address the common person. He says we give short shrift to the ownership of the common man over great ideas, even in eras when literacy was less widespread. "The Western project is actually consummated each time a single human heart is saved from the nihilistic dark night of relativism," he writes.
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