Beyond Jeremiads: Signs of Cultural Revival, Circa 2025

Christianity is today being rejected because it is more demanding than people weakened by the sexual revolution’s indiscipline want it to be. Yet living in outright opposition to religion—as both the Nietzschean radical Right and the Marcusian radical Left do—is not liberating people. It is making multitudes miserable and lonely. Their troubled voices do not rage in vain. They bear a message for the rest of society, whether they know it or not: They amount to primal screams for a world more ordered than many of today’s people now know—including a world ordered to some of Christianity’s essential principles, like mercy, community, and redemption...