Because we can criticise episodes of the abuse of power by Western nations or the descent to nonsense by those who profess to be intellectuals, we ought not to be blinded to the enduring value of the West’s unique intellectual tradition. It alone articulated the objective standard by which we know when ’something is rotten in the State of Denmark.
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