Not sure if this article is trying to remove T. S. Elliot from conservative ranks but it should not happen.
“The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide.”
T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture
the author doesn’t know anything about Eliot.
Eliot is a true synthesis of the greatest of our traditions and modernity (esp in his poetry). He didn’t really care about politics; in fact he despised it. A completely different character than Pound.
Eliot felt deeply the loss of a common European Christian culture. And that pain and his contemplation of all of that is set forth in his poetry.
Russell Kirk wrote a very fine biography of Eliot. Anyone interested should read it.
Elliot was not the main focus of the article.
I suspect it’s not all or nothing about Elliot any more than it is about Jefferson or Lincoln. FDR on the other hand ...