What can be learned from this history? There was for many of us in the mid-2010s a profound sense that something was missing in our common life in America. Material abundance seemed, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned, inextricably bound up with spiritual poverty. The false human story told by many progressives and conservatives alike in the years since Reagan, a story built around individual identity creation and the limitless pursuit of wealth through “free” (but to what end?) markets, often at the cost of transcendent truth, had left many people and places adrift. 

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We’ve lost our desire to discuss and listen. We’ve gone to strongman… “bully”… politics where your side is just wrong (and evil) and we are on the “right” side of things. Therefore, your wrong view must be shamed and destroyed.

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We have abundance, we cry “scarcity”, and we’re spiritually impoverished. In our spiritual poverty we’ve lost our ability to “reason together.”