The Washington Post has published an opinion piece on Poland that rehashes and amplifies the usual matrix of invective hitherto reserved for Hungary.  We are informed that Poland’s newly elected government, led by anti-Semites, Europhobes, and conspiracy theorists, is about to abandon democracy and the European Union.  This ill-researched and ill-tempered article is so baffling because its author, Jackson Diehl, while a mainstream liberal, is usually quite fair-minded. Diehl correctly avers that the current electoral victory in Poland is a reaction against previous governments, and that the left remains “discredited.”  “But Poland’s turn is also part of a growing popular backlash against European institutions and their ideology of tolerance, one that extends from Greece to France.”  In fact, it is a backlash against cultural nihilism, moral relativism, and other liberal pathologies. What so upset the WaPo author?...(Read Full Post)