The Absence and The Imperative of Virtue in Our TimesAn American Jeremiad for Thanksgiving 2025
In these times of moral inversion in America that are trying men’s souls, we are being told by our political class and taught by their example that the timeless virtues and their opposite vices that have defined humanity throughout all of civilization no longer exist, that these virtues and these vices are indistinguishable one from the other. We are even being told and taught by our political leaders that the virtues are actually vices and the vices virtues. We must never believe what we are being told. |
- Now more than ever before, this is our responsibility to mankind: To once again celebrate the virtuous and condemn the unvirtuous.
- For to strive to be virtuous is to be human, whereas to strive to be unvirtuous is to be inhuman.
- Virtuous as distinguished from unvirtuous
- Righteous as distinguished from unrighteous
- Godly as distinguished from godless
- Moral as distinguished from immoral
- Good as distinguished from evil
- Right as distinguished from wrong
- Wise as distinguished from ignorant
- Temperate as distinguished from excessive
- Honorable as distinguished from dishonorable
- Principled as distinguished from unprincipled
- Noble as distinguished from ignoble
- Brave as distinguished from fearful
- Courageous as distinguished from cowardly
- Heroic as distinguished from unheroic
- Truthful as distinguished from untruthful
If there were ever a dream conservative lawyer resume - former 4th Circuit Judge, Boeing General Counsel J. Michael Luttig has it. A former Circuit Judge, White House Associate Counsel, law Clerk to Antonin Scalia and Earl Warren, Luttig is sounding the alamrm.
Luttig has elaborated his thoughts in an article in The Atlantic, December 2025
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