The contradictions and the weaknesses of Bernanos's analysis are obvious enough. And this equation, after a war between democracy and dictatorship in which Bernanos himself had taken a side, and the right side, was incoherent. Moreover, the vagueness of the analysis, combined with its dogmatism, is exactly the contradiction represented by a theology trying to be a politics. And yet there is something moving in the prospect of Bernanos's passionate rejectionism. In the era of Being and Nothingness , it was courageous to dwell so publicly in the Absolute.
True grace is to forget.
He loved them to extinction. And his rebellion had the humility of pride. Ferrucio Busoni was ahead of his time. Paul McCarthy is a quack. Farewell to Balthus, the great twentieth-century enigma Conflicts of interest in public life.