Sublime

politics but Federal

il est le premier théoricien de la séparation des pouvoirs politique et religieux et le premier penseur moderne de nos démocraties libérales. Mais là où il me semble encore plus moderne que nous, c’est qu’il a parfaitement perçu, alors qu’elles n’existaient pas encore, les limites de nos démocraties :

The narrative of Free America remained as inflexible as any ideology: tax cuts and deregulation = freedom and prosperity. Decade after decade you encountered its mantra, like the rituals of a cargo cult, on the website of the Cato Institute, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, and the platform of the

rabbis as teachers are in critical demand. And after a year running Hadar, I knew that my life’s focus was not only to build one specific community but also to spread the model of Empowered Judaism.

You could tell that the Manifest conference was a rationalist rather than an EA event because of the presence of people who were either considered unwoke (like Hanson, who told me he’d basically been canceled from EA events since a 2018 blog post in which he wrote sympathetically about the idea of redistributing sex to incels),