text: One can only hope that the excesses of the "age of liberals and progressives" is FINALLY coming to an end - or at least the intense political struggles that are occurring will eventually introduce more balance into our social and political cultures than has been the case for the last few decades. I, for one, will be happy if, when I reach an advanced age, society looks back on the period just past as a time when some of the loopy and irrationally idealistic dogmas of the left come to be seen as ridiculous as those of those Medieval theologians who debated how many angels could fit on the head of a pin.