"And just look at how casually this sheep-faced English cleric throws away the work of centuries of civilization." Hitchens sounds like a true conservative. Here's Evelyn Waugh on Rudyard Kipling's conservatism:

“He was a conservative in the sense that he believed civilization to be something laboriously achieved which was only precariously defended. He wanted to see the defences fully manned and he hated the liberals because he thought them gullible and feeble, believing in the easy perfectibility of man and ready to abandon the work of centuries for sentimental qualms.”

That pretty well sums me up, too. My greatest fear is that Western civilization's self-defeating attitudes -- which the Archbishop of Canterbury's latest yammerings illustrate so well -- will lead to its defeat. I'm reading Mark Steyn's America Alone, about creeping sharia in Europe, and it's sobering.

Just so it's not too sobering:



Thanks, David.