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But both the populists and the intellectuals in this camp share the same basic understanding of our national predicament. Their America is a nation in which religious faith has been steadily marginalized, with increasingly disastrous results.

We’ve done it to each other with equal callousness in the wars and purges that are a constant feature of our history, not to mention the genocides and organised persecutions orchestrated by all those ruthless optimists with their perfect plans for our salvation.

And the third crisis, through which we’re living? That, Professor Rex argued, involves “. . . a question that would once have been expressed as ‘What is man?’ The fact that this wording is now itself seen as problematic is a symptom of the very condition it seeks to diagnose. What is it, in other words, to be human?” That, Rex rightly contends, is

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It’s not even an American—it’s Nigel Farage, former head of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Before Farage came along, British anti-EU sentiment was strongly tinged with racism and even white supremacism.

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a Bible phrase that frightened me when I was young: that in the last days there would be wars, and rumours of wars.

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