“Our Culture Today: Ressentiment and the Attack on the Enlightenment.” Our culture today, as reflected in the media, politics, and particularly in our university is dominated by “Post Modern Marxists” who have mounted a broad and sustained attack on the Enlightenment and on anyone who defends it. Given the benefits brought by the Enlightenment one wonders why the attack, and perhaps it is the “ressentiment” that was identified by Herman Kahn in his 1976 book, “The Next 200 Years.”