April 22, 2025
The Return of the Strong Gods. Nationalism, Populism and the Future of the West. Talking with author Rusty Reno.
The Postwar consensus, based on Karl Popper’s Open Society and Hayek’s Road to Serfdom is based on secularity, individualism and internationalism, has served to keep the Peace for 80 years since 1945. But it’s coming to an end. What will replace it ?
The Post War Consensus, based on the Open Society was crafted to dampen and eliminate passions that fueled nationalism, militarism, anti-semitism in WWI and WWII. The de-emphasis of traditional beliefs in family, flag, faith in favor of individualism, secularity and internationalism served to cool emotions and for 80 years in the Western Democracies peace prevailed. But that consensus is coming to an end as a wave of Populism has swept across the US, UK and other nations. What will replace it ?
