I consider Ryszard Legutko, former professor at the Jagellonian Institute in Krakow and an adviser to the very conservative president of Poland, to be the greatest living critic of liberal democracy. Please note that I myself produced a trilogy on the same subject, in which one can find many of the same criticisms as those offered by Legutko. But this Polish Catholic scholar does my work more succinctly. What’s more, the translator of his book The Demon in Democracy, Theresa Adelson, has performed a literary and linguistic feat by producing the translation that Encounter Books has made available. Let me begin by noting for heuristic purposes that John O’Sullivan, who provides a preface for the English edition, understates Legutko’s censures of liberal democracy. Legutko is not complaining about a temporary glitch in liberal democracies in which “the range of acceptable political expression and the ability of voters to choose between policies have both been...(Read Full Article)