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The Writer Learns To Write, In The Last Resort, Only By Writing. He Must Get Words Onto Paper Even If He Is Dissatisfied With Them. A Young Writer Must Cross Many Psychological Barriers To Acquire Confidence In His Capacity To Produce Good Work-especially His First Full-length Book-and He Cannot Do This By Staring At A Piece Of Blank Paper, Searching For The Perfect Sentence.

In The Past, The U.s. Has Shown Its Capacity To Reinvent Its Gifts For Leadership. During The 1970s, In The Aftermath Of The Nixon Abdication And The Ford And Carter Presidencies, The Whole Nation Peered Into The Abyss, Was Horrified By What It Saw And Elected Ronald Reagan As President, Which Began A National Resurgence.

In The Last Generation, With Public Christianity In Headlong Retreat, We Have Caught Our First, Distant View Of A De-christianized World , And It Is Not Encouraging.

A Capitalist Economy Hums When Leading Businessmen Are Bubbling With Animal Spirits And Are Prepared To Sink Their Money Into Risky Ventures.

For Me This Is The Vital Litmus Test: No Intellectual Society Can Flourish Where A Jew Feels Even Slightly Uneasy.