Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake

[breve]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/rod-dreher-religious-conservativism-jd-vance/685732/

[gus_massa]

All right, but apart from the antibiotics and electricity, what have Enlightenment ever done for us?

[bediger4000]

To a secular ear, all of this supernatural talk can sound like useful idiocy that serves only the autocrats

I expect it sounds that way to most non-secular ears as well, because it is. Someone needs to remind him that it doesn't matter how well he licks the boot, they're never going to let him wear it.