The Tradition of the West

‘One of the chief characteristics of Western culture has been the spirit of inquiry bound up in its tradition of dialogue. In few other places can this been seen more dramatically than in the great books of this culture.

However, in an age where many are terrified of asking the hard questions anymore, in an age of overwhelming political correctness, do we still promote the reading of those books, and if we read them, do we do so as they were intended to be read, with a true, mature and responsible spirit of critical inquiry and not just ideological posturing?’

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