Illusions We Should Know

Here is an optical illusion, a safe and entertaining curiosity:

Here is a political illusion, an instructive and frightening reality:

His name is Herbert Marcuse. If you attended college when history courses were actually a requirement, you likely read about him or even read his book, One-Dimensional Man (1964). If you were a member of the 1960s counterculture, you likely worshiped him.

Robin Phillips has much to say about Marcuse and his legacy in this brief, revealing article in Salvo Magazine. This is essential reading, friends. Phillips's new book, Saints and Scoundrels from King Herod to Jim Elliot, may be of interest as well.

H/T Paul Mehl, Concordia, MO