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Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism

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Is Climate Change or Transgendereserv a Manifestation of the Alienation You're Talking About?

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Scepticism is not a spiritual longing, it's an attempt to account for the whole. And i think that's part of what happens in secular society - religious aspect comes out and comes out in different ways. The left historically, has maintained that focus on science over religion. It itsa emanentizing of religion, so to speak. We've embraced a set of policies around individualism which also has to be supported at law. That's actually one strange thing about our political movements: you open yourself up to a lot of strange ideas. I'm more agnostic than atheist on climate change; i'm agnostic on whether there's anything we can do about it that's productive

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