They’re trying to ride out the media cycle on the theory it makes her more of a celebrity which I think was the theory being “West Coast editor” to begin with.

It also posts that high thresholds for belonging increase the appeal of a religious group. It is often invoked by high-intensity sectarian subgroups like traditionalists as a reason their movement is about to spread like wildfire.

I’m referring of course to the more sincere and levelheaded elements, an important proviso here. This is a theme of the play “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” which I just finished teaching.

Steve Bruce’s point that secular beats spiritual gets at this too. “Spiritual but not religious” is secularizing, but so is forced religiosity without spiritual depth.

Charles Taylor dealt with all the legitimate questions Ross is asking in a 2007 book (A Secular Age) that remains very compelling and has outlasted contemporaneous sociological literature on these points.

This has been an option for the masses in the U.S. going back to Roswell and especially with the rise of sci-fi mass fandom post-Trek, just gaining elite buyin.

Yes and integralism as a movement reflects the U.S. religious right taking on European characteristics.

I find Davie compelling because she provides a way into the cracks where religion maintains a hold amid secularity.

This is two ways: the religious right is desperate to staunch and reverse this so their kids aren’t infected, and the post-religious right which Douthat himself has famously commented on has gone berserk because they have thrown off the constraints of Christian morality to go beyond good and evil.

The post-2000 secularization in the U.S. that ended the credibility of rational choice exceptionalist theories here is one of the reasons the right has gone so berserk.

Usually on those all doors that platform will open.

These guys might be watching too many targeted TikToks about like Emirates first class.

The Hamptons give you added (traffic and train crowd generating) rich people to resent beyond just the metropole.