Is the political thought of Harry V. Jaffa still relevant today? Jaffa has been dead for almost a decade. Much has happened in that time. He was concerned with “the crisis of the west,” but he could not know that today’s tribal loyalties based on sex and race would coincide with the evident erosion of the modern nation-state. Jaffa seemed mostly concerned with the American Civil War—the battle where the bad guys were pre-modern, almost feudal oligarchs of the South and the good guys a modernizing democracy in the North.
