The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now , by Daniel J. Mahoney. Encounter Books, 2025, 159 pages, $29.99. Promising to offer โa full-throated defense of moral and political sanity against the latest eruptions of ideological mendacity in our time,โ The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and…
Liberalism has been getting a bad press. Even self-described liberal Francis Fukuyama endorses โthe substantive conservative critique of liberalism – that liberal societies provide no common moral horizon around which community can be built,โ proof of a profound โspiritual vacuumโ at their core. New York Times columnist David Brooks, whose convictions are hard to pinpoint, similarly laments that โthe…