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 …
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That is to say: I've read endless articles concerned about progressive "orthodoxy" "puritanism" "dogmatism"—but those same authors seem remarkably unconcerned about the very institutions that inspired those pejoratives! Those seem to get a free pass.
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Religious schools routinely apply ideological tests to instructors before hiring. Curriculums are built around ideological purity. Houses of worship don't tend to invite "alternative perspectives". Aren't those institutions the epitome of dangerous, censorial groupthink?
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The answer, of course, is that through a strange slight of hand, critics of the intellectual rot that attends *orthodoxy* somehow exempt religious institutions from the charge that they, too, are contributors. /x
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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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