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We don’t live in an age of reason

26 March 2025

9:34 PM

26 March 2025

9:34 PM

When Tucker Carlson claimed to have been “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep late last year, it was something of a bellwether: a sign that America’s cultural Right, now in the ascendancy, has persuaded itself to take a symbolic stand against the Enlightenment and the scientific worldview.

Looking back on the 2010s and early 2020s, much of the American right now sees an era of secular hubris.

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