Like all things human, the United States will eventually die. Since conquering it by force is not logistically feasible, its death will be de facto suicide. The culprit will be Americans' forgetting the truth that liberty is only sustainable by virtue. And they will have forgotten that truth because we no longer have a collective vision of what "the good" for man is, and hence no vision of what virtue objectively requires.
Democracy Needs Religion—but Which?
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German sociologist Hartmut Rosa characterizes modernity as the product of a
triple acceleration. Technology speeds up movement and communication,
technol...
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