J. Budziszewski's book is about the lost world of common truths' about what we all really know about right and wrong.
We are passing through an eerie phase of history. The things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard of, and the principles of decency are attacked as indecent. Exposing the emptiness of contemporary moral fashions, Budziszewski explores the rules of human conduct that we can't not know.