As a first-century Christian awaited with certainty and calmness the return of his Lord, I await the resurrection of liberalism. As Churchill regarded pessimism, so I regard conservatism: I see no value in it—although I realize that it, too, will return every twenty years.

Victor Hugo summarized the end of Napoleon, “God was bored with him.” Vox populi, vox Dei . Or as my old nurse observed, “The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time.”