ABSTRACT
In the twentieth century, prisons and torture chambers have been better places to encounter God than universities. Modernity has imagined God to be a ghostly version of the tyrants we have actually seen in the twentieth century. Nihilism builds no cities. Great cultures are built by vaulting aspiration—by the Eros of truth and love and justice and realism that flung into the sky such arches as this Abbey's. During the twentieth century, the free society was fighting for its life. The urgent need to secure the free polity and the free economy blinded most to the cultural peril into which liberty has rapidly been falling. In obeying truth, the way of liberty is marked out "as a lamp unto our feet." The twenty-first century could be the single most creative century in history, bringing virtually all the peoples of the world under the cool and healthful shade of liberty.
