Political hacks can do a great job of taking a profound insight and turn it into the dreadfully meaningless state of a political slogan, a sound-byte, or worst of all, a talking point. Voegelin’s condemnation against immanentizing the eschaton is one of those profound ideas about the shared eschatological views of modern totalitarians and millenialist Gnostics, stripped to a slogan of “yeah let’s stick it to those liberals.” Like many things at National Review, Rich Lowry has found a new profound talking point from President Bush, in a speech welcoming the Holy Father to the U.S. For Bush this was … Continue reading A Dictatorship of Relative Torture