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16 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
My new Friday Essay is out at @WCrowdsLive:

Because America is an "ideological" nation, attacks on the founding, however well intentioned, are a worrying proposition. And now they are being normalized by senior officials. At what cost?

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The Friday Essay is a new series where @dmarusic and I alternate essays each week. This is our fourth installment. Last week, Damir wrote on American selfishness and it's well worth reading if you missed it

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My first Friday Essay came out two weeks ago—on 'why Christianity failed,' which I really enjoyed writing. I offered up a somewhat different interpretation of what went wrong

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We're really excited about The Friday Essay, and we want to make it a home for more exploratory writing on questions of identity, religion, and first premises

If you're interested, subscribe here to get a new one each week, as well as other paid content: wisdomofcrowds.live/subscribe/
Wisdom of Crowds is something of an experiment and a "start up" and we can't do it without your support. So if you like my or @dmarusic's writing (or if you wish to hate-read us for sport) please do consider joining us. And of course you can cancel anytime wisdomofcrowds.live/subscribe/

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17 Apr
Excited to share this with all of you. Our two-part conversation with @ggreenwald is out!

I hope you'll find it as fascinating as we did. We talk about Brazil, Trump, January 6, Chomsky, American exceptionalism, and why liberals don't like him

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In Part 2, the conversation gets more personal, with @ggreenwald discussing if he considers himself a man of the left and whether he would have ever considered serving in a Bernie Sanders administration

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One thing I push @ggreenwald on is whether the left has a blindspot when it comes to anti-American dictators and how he assesses America's bad behavior relative to China and Russia's. This was one of my favorite parts of the conversation. wisdomofcrowds.live/the-world-acco…
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14 Apr
This is a very good essay from @DouthatNYT on whether a religious awakening might come to pass among educated elites nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opi…
A few thoughts. Christianity's decline has been fueled by the desertion of the professional-managerial classes. By contrast, Islam's revival in the 1970s and 80s drew considerable strength from some of those same groups—engineers, doctors, technocrats, lawyers, and teachers
Over the course of the 20th century, Islamic thinkers consciously tried to refashion the religion as rigidly rationalist and anti-supernatural. Rashid Rida, one of the most influential Islamic revivalists of the 20th century, described Islam as the "religion of reason"
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8 Apr
I quite literally laughed out loud at this
A generation of Rachel Dolezals isn't the future we wanted, but it might be the future we get
I must have missed this classic of the genre
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2 Apr
I have a new essay out today on why Christianity failed. Thought I'd share a few thoughts here about what inspired it. The piece brings together a few different strands of my thinking on religion. 1/x wisdomofcrowds.live/why-christiani…
In my recent Atlantic essay 'America without God,' I focused on what Christianity's decline meant for the American idea. But that still leaves open a different, challenging question on why Christian attachments have declined so rapidly. 2/x

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The intellectual and spiritual vacuum intensified due to an unlikely confluence of events in the 2000s, and Trump was able to benefit from this. But there's a counterfactual history where instead of Trump filling the vacuum, Christianity could have made a return. It didn't. 3/x
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1 Apr
Working on my first ever Friday Essay for @WCrowdsLive, a new subscribers-only feature where @dmarusic and I alternate essays each week. Subscribe here: wisdomofcrowds.live/subscribe/
Last week, @dmarusic wrote our first ever Friday Essay, and it's very, very good. I'm biased, but it's one of the most insightful pieces on American religion that I've read in a long while. Check it out.

'The Paradox of American Faith'

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The goal is that a year from now, we'll have 50 or so essays that are high quality but also a little bit odd, because they won't be meant for tens of thousands of people to read.

We want to make the essay fun again.

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31 Mar
Can we live with decadence? A review of the new edition of @DouthatNYT's excellent book

Must-read from @matt_hw8 for @WCrowdsLive:

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One of the main insights from @douthatnyt's book is that decadence is obviously "bad," but it's by no means the worst thing a society can experience. If the choice is between living with decadence or being "rescued" from it by a Napoleonic figure, I know which I'd choose
For me, the most fascinating thing about the new edition of @DouthatNYT's book is that COVID "hardly plays a role"

As @matt_hw8 points out: "If a once-in-a-century pandemic can’t jolt us out of our somnolent decline, maybe nothing can"

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