Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.