Crunchy Cons is a fairly folksy book, but it takes seriously the warnings delivered to the West by both Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Pope John Paul II: that the threat to our civilization from allowing market values to rule our culture, at the expense of spiritual values, is potentially as great as the threat from the ugly and brutal materialism forced on people by the Marxists. Put another way, they warned that the feel-good dystopia of Brave New World was just as devastating as the totalitarian misery in 1984.
Me: Rod, Huxley's Brave New World was hardly a free market nirvana. And you're stealing a lot of bases if you're going to say that a free market society is the equivalent of Huxley's world state.
