If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television, then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths—young men principally, of course—to our way of life.
The Cost of Frivolity (February 1, 2007). - City Journal (1998 - 2008)
