There is a monster in Dante’s Inferno whose name is Geryon. He is a symbol for our age, a creature with the body of a reptile and “the face of a just and honest man.” We live in a time of state-sponsored mendacity, where it is claimed from high places to young graduates that Mao was as admirable as Mother Teresa, that abortion is health care, and that victory in Afghanistan over an enemy that blinds young girls to keep them from becoming educated is a pejorative term. We breathe in so much relativism with the air we forget that “a lie is nothing, no thing, and cannot exist until somebody accepts it as the truth. This is the opposite of the divinity fusing with the body of the world” (Andrew Lytle).