Like a prophetic denunciation from the days of ancient Israel, the Covid-19 pandemic has come upon our self-absorbed and decadent civilization like a bolt from the blue, throwing into sharp relief the follies and fault-lines in our moral thinking and offering us, if we but had eyes to see, a sudden illumination of the moral contours of our political landscape. Yet, for the most part, seeing we have not perceived and hearing we have not understood; most of us seem content to adjust our blinkers further over our eyes and retreat further into our ideological bunkers.
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Brad Littlejohn
Brad Littlejohn (Ph.D, University of Edinburgh) is Director of Programs and Education at American Compass. He lives in Loudoun County, VA, with his wife, Rachel, and four children.