Recently I attended a public event with Ross Douthat at the Catholic University of America. He shared the stage with Spencer Klavan, a young intellectual from the Claremont Review of Books. Both speakers promoted their new books and discussed how the tide had turned away from secularism towards interest in various forms of religious experiences. Klavan was enthusiastic about such development and even looked intoxicated from the successful battle against secularism. He appeared confident in a bright future, particularly for Christianity and the conservative movement at large. Douthat, on the other hand, was not so bright-eyed and at times appeared pensive, offering a more cautious assessment of the current cultural moment, declining to give positive predictions of how things will proceed from here.
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