Theory: this is is a more acceptable form of antiliberalism, and the antiliberals are cashing in on the fact that the introspection/self correction embedded in liberalism requires us to take seriously the idea that its flaws have produced the current illiberal populist moment
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Perhaps the high-minded folks at the Atlantic could ask
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American Evangelicism is a corporate rearguard action to limit organization inside the lower class community so it isn’t in the same tradition as say Baptist’s or Lurtherns also Heidegger is a Nazi
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Intellectual pedigree refers to fact that Catholic reactionaries have in multiple disciplines continued to produce a large body of scholarship that even non-Catholics (including liberals and leftists) have to take seriously, if they want stay abreast. Not true of evangelicals
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We have recently seen the Pope walk alone in St. Peter's Square and give his blessing to the whole world. Even non-religious people recognized the strength of the symbolism. Could it be the case that reactionary thought is intrinsically linked to permanence of language and >
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symbols the same as the permanence of values, and protestant/evangelical thought is itself intrinsically iconoclastic? Other way to see it is the divide between analyticism/historicism in English speaking world and continental Europe.
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Many years ago, the Atlantic did an article on the fusing of the Catholic Right & the evangelical Right, with one argument that yes, Catholic education often provides the intellectual capital that evangelical fundamentalism lacks. To us, both kinds of reactionaries are dangerous
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