THE BIRTH OF THE CULTURE WARS: This century-long conflict is born of the Western elites’ loss of cultural and moral authority.

Writing in 1973, Irving Kristol, a leading conservative commentator, drew attention to the moral depletion of Western culture:

‘For well over 150 years now, social critics have been warning us that bourgeois society was living off the accumulated moral capital of traditional religion and traditional moral philosophy, and that once this capital was depleted, bourgeois society would find its legitimacy ever-more questionable.’

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More: Ancien Regime Change. “Do not worry too much about the statues which are now coming down. They mean surprisingly little. Worry more about the ones they are soon going to be putting up, and what they will represent.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Or not. Seen on Facebook: “Relax, they’re just making room for all the Trump statues.”