So...I agree with this piece in every respect. What's strange to me, though, is that if we're really concerned about Puritanism, the *main* target of critique should be institutions explicitly built around codified forms of Puritanism sanctified by a deity.https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1144739239348752384 …
Yes, but not quite. In reality, it's the orthodoxy of the right that these "critics" exempt from their attacks.
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I think that's true in general, although to their credit, I've found that some people like Weiss and David French will occasionally critique *political* orthodoxies of their party—but even they would never dare to critique religious orthodoxy writ large
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Well, yes, that was implicit in my point. They pick "orthodoxies" on the right for which their criticism is unlikely to produce any blowback at all. They never take on the much more central orthodoxies, for which criticism would jeopardize their standing.
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