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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: We Are on the Wrong Road
Description: The dignity of the human, individual rights like freedom of speech and religion, women’s equality, reliable standards of right and wrong, openness to other cultures and their ideas—these were the markers of Western Civilization. But the Marxists of the ’70s and ’80s saw an opening for their revolution, and foisted race onto to the notion of the West. White, everywhere, stood for oppression. The chants of “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ has got to go” in the ’80s were a success. Adults did themselves no favors when they dismissed college students’ odd ideologies, the defense of violen...