Editor’s note: Anchoring Truths has been given permission by Encounter Books and Daniel Mahoney to republish this excerpt from Mahoney’s book The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, originally found here. I’ve counted them all up: the teacher who laughs with children at their God and at their cradle, is already ours. The lawyer who defends …
“We must recognize that we face a great contest. At stake is the understanding of personal identity that supplies moorings for the conservative virtues, and lies at the root of any distinctively Western tradition” (Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1907–1972) Cultural Marxism is the foundational paradigm for individuals endeavouring to center their identities on a humanist refabrication …
2020 was an inflection point for the Marxist long march through the institutions. Author Mike Gonzalez details how that was not spontaneous though.
