Malcolm Muggeridge, a professed atheist and communist who turned to Christ, wrote this profound essay on liberalism, its roots in atheism, and the kind of behaviour it produces and advocates.

Muggeridge was one of the few Western journalists to recognise the evil of Soviet Communism when most western thinkers taken in by the utopian promise of Marxism. For his honest reporting on the Stalinist trials he lost his job and was blacklisted for a time. He never lost his critical touch.