Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous future of the American republic:
Seeds of dissolution were already present in the ancient heritage as it reached the shores of America. [And] perhaps the dissolution, long since begun, may one day be consummated. Perhaps one day the noble many-storeyed mansion of democracy will be dismantled, leveled to the dimensions of a flat majoritarianism, which is no mansion but a barn, perhaps even a tool shed in which the weapons of tyranny may be forged. Perhaps there will one day be wide dissent from....[the understanding] that the eternal reason of God is the ultimate origin of all law [and] that this nation in all its aspects — as a society, a state, an ordered and free relationship between governors and governed — is under God...
OK, who wrote that? A millennial Tradinista? A proponent of the new integralism? A "traditional Catholic"? A political theorist down on John Locke? A Catholic commentator revolted by several states embracing a "fundamental human right" to infanticide? A "populist" with a surprisingly elegant pen?
