Sublime

Modern liberalism has adopted the Jacobin spirit. Having dispensed with traditional moral norms, liberals have transformed the severe quality of conscience into a playpen of desire. Hav­ing denied a religious foundation for human rights, they have left individuals vulnerable to the despotic whims of the secular state. This outcome was predicted by

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the evangelical left operates. For them, a person’s actual identity does not really matter. A person’s actual actions do not really matter. What matters is the destruction of the heretic, and to take their criticisms and worldview at face value is to give them a validity that they do not possess.

WHAT WE MAY lack is the sense of neighborliness. For me, the scariest thing about the last forty years, even more than the rising temperature, was the ascension of the libertarian idea that the individual matters far more than the society an individual inhabits. The New York Times called Ayn Rand (“altruism is incompatible with freedom”) the

What we have at the moment is not so much a prosperity gospel as a depravity gospel.