Solving An Enigma
By DONALD DeMARCO Veteran author and columnist Rex Murphy, in assessing what is going on in the world of politics, offers both an insight and a challenge to his readers. “How,” he writes, “a wild politics which shuns reality and punishes and attacks those who support it, has taken hold of so many sad minds is truly an enigma.”“It is the besetting sin of the idealist,” wrote Christopher Dawson, “to sacrifice reality to his ideals; to reject life because it fails to come up to his ideals; and this vice is just as prevalent among religious leaders as secular ones.” There may be a market today for “I Support Reality” buttons.Enigmas, like the enigmatic smile of Mona Lisa, are both…Continue Reading