Prelapsarian Politics and Postlapsarian Polemics

May 10th, 2023 | 5 min read

Five years since the publication of Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed sparked a dialectical war among religious conservatives over their Lockean heritage, the cannons haven’t stopped firing. To the contrary, the war is expanding to new theaters.

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Collin Slowey

Collin Slowey is a writer on politics, culture, and religion whose work has been featured in The American Conservative, The Dallas Morning News, and Public Discourse, among other outlets.

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