In this week’s Takimag column, our favorite doctor takes a trip to London’s Highgate Cemetery and ponders life and death, Marx’s tasteless tomb, the war in the Ukraine, and liberal guilt.

Again, this is not to say that one should be indifferent or uncharitable, but it is a call to honesty. But like a virus in a computer my mind has been infected (slightly) by liberal guilt. The only way to get rid of it is to be grateful: but to whom or to what?