“Over my many years of presiding at such scholarly confabs, the question is regularly raised about what results they produce. It is, one gently suggests, a dumb question. Nonetheless, it is asked and, in response, many fall back on Richard Weaver’s maxim that “ideas have consequences.”Those who have to be told that ideas have consequences are living with the sad consequence of minds dominated by ideas that are not their own.”
– Fr. Richard John Neuhaus
