The author seems well intentioned, but if you want to preserve the western canon from being overrun by old world chaos, you need a present and resonant descript

The author seems well intentioned, but if you want to preserve the western canon from being overrun by old world chaos, you need a present and resonant description of the current, material capital-e Evil that demonstrates to young men that not only their survival, but the future possibility of good itself is on the line. Given how useful philosophy was against resisting the horrors of the 20th century, I'm surprised anyone thinks it could be helpful against current and imminent ones. The Soviet Union, El Salvador, Argentina, and Chile, didn't escape communism by revisiting early modern thinkers, and the Axis was not defeated by flashes of insight, yet as we watch the institutions of freedom and prosperity fall like dominos to viral subjectivity, apparently we're still sounding it out.