Commentary
There’s a simple truth about human nature that liberalism denies, that it rejects in principle. The truth is this: A person can’t believe his life in the present has very much meaning if he doesn’t believe in a meaningful past.
If there’s no plot to history, if the generations that preceded him don’t form a heritage, if time is just one thing after another, more or less random and flat, an individual’s own existence has no place beyond the moment, no relation to anything more than his immediate circumstances. A devout Christian has a history that runs from the Garden to the Second Coming; a devoted patriot serves his country; the scion of a distinguished family has his forebears behind him. Liberalism gives him nothing like that….