Comments for The Most Interesting Man Alive? at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sat, 25 May 2013 16:30:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-most-interesting-man-alive.html#comment-4723 Kent: Matt Hanley is on a brief vacation, but I believe that the comment appeared in a remarkable little book called "The Dialectic of Secularization," a conversation between Habermas and the then Joseph Ratzinger, which is available in English. - Robert Royal Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:20:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-most-interesting-man-alive.html#comment-4721 A fascinating essay. Could you please share where the Habermas quote cited comes from? “Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this we have no other options. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter.” Thanks so much. - Kent Hill Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:44:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-most-interesting-man-alive.html#comment-4719 Aye! I can't think of another essayist alive who can just stop me in my tracks like Dalrymple. It is devoutly to be wished that he join our company even more closely, in the eternal scheme, because he is such a boon companion on this earthly stage. - Tom Brennan Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:28:11 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-most-interesting-man-alive.html#comment-4718 An insightful and generous piece. For the record, we actually called Dalrymple "one of the most interesting people alive", so we did qualify our claim somewhat. - Steve Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:09:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-most-interesting-man-alive.html#comment-4707 So Mr. Dalrymble believes in Christian Civilization but not in Christ the King, without Whom all value systems, that of the "West" included, collapse into relativism and then nihilism. When the enemies of our civilization marshall for the next Lepanto, around whose banner will those not contracepted gather? Will it that of Marx? Freud? Nietzsche? Ayn Rand? Dalrymple himsef, perhpas? It is Christ or chaos and the near dearth of Christendom. (Near death because Our Lord promised that the Gates of Hell cannot prevail. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:56:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-most-interesting-man-alive.html#comment-4706 I had not heard of Dalrymple's The New Vichy Syndrome. I dare say one might profit from reading this work in conjunction with Yves R. Simon's account of the original "syndrome" in his The Road to Vichy: 1918-1938 (reprint University Press of America, 1988). - Jack Carlson Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:32:42 +0100