. . . American civic strength relies on balancing a general expectation of religious faith without any imposition of doctrine. There is a genius in this that conservatives understand but abuse and that Marxists and some liberals haven't grasped: We non-believers find far better protection in the interstices of a balance between the Enlightenment of Locke and the Lord of the Covenant than we would in some postmodernist free-for all, which would really be a Hobbesian free-for-none. . . .
. . . More than a few leftists, too, may need Maoist-style rehabilitation in corporate workplaces. Instead of huddling in a few cozy neighborhoods and posturing before undergraduates and imagined communities of magazine readers, let them work awhile for large, bureaucratic corporations (not just drop by "on assignment" for glossy magazines). They might learn how to balance conservative cultural and religious strengths with liberal opportunities.
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