Every now and again, a single human has an impact far beyond his lifespan.  Marx was one.  Donald Trump will be another. We have been living in the shadow of Marx's corpse since his death almost 137 years ago.  This is despite the fact that socialist economics has been debunked, and Marxist political experiments have been an unmitigated disaster.  Yet, like a continually adapting virus, Marxist ideologues have infected every area of knowledge.  Consequently, Marx-inspired dogma informs the politics of the Left, the hermeneutics of academia, Common Core's woke "bootcamp for the global economy," rabid feminism, justification for bureaucratic intervention, revenge plots against the traditional Western canon, revisionist history, the undermining of individual freedom in favor of "victim" groups, and now the deconstruction of human nature itself. Worse has been the recent liaison of the Left with the...(Read Full Post)