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January 4, 2016

Is the Coarsening of Political Discourse Connected with the Decline of Religion?

When politics takes the place of religion, the stakes change.

Why is it, asks David Gelernter, that the American political scene is filled with so much vitriol, and that so much (though far from all) of it comes from the left? He sees the problem as a result of letting politics fill the vacuum created by the disappearance of religion:

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