
Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism
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What's the Modern Religion of America?
Liberalism can't go on its own accord. It's not a self sufficient body of ideas that doesn't require a lot of tributary sources, he says. We've got the highest stanro living you could argue in human history and yet we're very alienated from each other according to him. He thinks there is something like an animal longing for transcendent spiritual being but also our increasing refusal to ask ourselves what does it mean to be free?
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