Slouching toward Gomorrah, Still

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Slouching toward Gomorrah, Still

by Kathryn Jean Lopez November 21, 2016 12:00 AM

 

Prophetic wisdom 20 years on

 

You may be familiar with the word “bork” — which one online dictionary defines as to “obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification.” That, as you might remember, happened to District of Columbia Court of Appeals judge Robert Bork back in 1987 after Ronald Reagan nominated him for the Supreme Court that summer. As his wife, Mary Ellen Bork, recalls, “after a monstrous political battle, he resigned from the court in 1988 so that he could write about his legal and cultural views and speak with more freedom than he could if he remained on the court.”

 

And indeed liberated, Judge Bork wrote bestselling books, including Slouching toward Gomorrah, which was published 20 years ago this year. I’ve been walking around with the book in my purse on and off for the past few months, rereading it in bits and pieces. As Mrs. Bork puts it, his “analysis of American culture has remained true and his analysis of how we got there is as accurate today as it was in 1996.” In a nutshell: “We are under assault and large chunks of our culture have disappeared.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442348/robert-bork-slouching-toward-gomorrah-20-years-later