Lessons from the Ayatollah – Max J. Prowant

Many on the fringes of the Christian right are flirting with post-liberalism.

Frida Ghitis: Many post-liberals want to replace liberalism with some new, unifying outlook that better captures and answers man’s natural, moral longings.

Ghitis says Khomeini 's project in Iran was surely more extreme and violent than what most post-Liberals would endorse.

He says if they are serious about reviving moral virtue or shoring up religious faith, they should study the tragic example of Iran .

Frida Ghitis: Khomeini ’s Iran theocracy would provide a harsh corrective to modern excesses.

She says post-liberals have little attention to the problem of how they have wrestled for centuries , i.e. i.i.e., she says.

Ghitis writes: Post-Liberals differ most dramatically from the regime that they do not call for violent revolution.

Khomeini instituted a regime that vested ultimate discretion in the hands of religious men who could theoretically guide Iranian society to a happier future, writes Ali Razzazzi .

Razzi: The Ayatollah is no pope, surely. But one does not find in the modern era a more compelling case of postliberal ambitions put to the test.

Despite his efforts, Iranians are growing less and less religious.