Daniel J. Mahoney, one of the great living conservative men of letters, has compiled a new work of essays with a laser focus on the deadly consequences of enabling and therefore empowering “ideological fanaticism.”
Mahoney has long trumpeted the works of past thinkers who revolted against “ideological despotism,” like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vaclav Havel, or who have warned against its rise, like philosophers Roger Scruton and Raymond Aron. Mahoney is one of the modern trumpeters, and his extensive work has placed him at the forefront of the intellectual battlefield. His latest work, “The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now,” ventures through the past 200-plus years of revolutionary upheavals.
