{"id":3150,"date":"2023-11-14T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:29:39","slug":"the-anti-liberal-crusade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/11\/14\/the-anti-liberal-crusade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Liberal Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>On Hamas and the moral blindness of identity politics<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support for Hamas on U.S. college campuses has not surprised those of us who have witnessed the slow but decisive erosion of liberal thought on the hallowed grounds ostensibly committed to nourishing it. The humanities capitulated decades ago; now the natural and social sciences have succumbed as well. Every discipline stumbles over itself seeking absolution for sins its present-day adherents did not commit. College administrators respond to, and accelerate, this longing, while students bear the ever-rising cost of an anti-liberal crusade. In gatherings formal and informal, faculty, staff, and students signal their religious need to be counted among the redeemed rather than the damned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this was foreseeable. Every anti-liberal revolutionary movement since the French Revolution has offered followers its own version of redemption. None has satisfied the deepest human longings of the human heart. Each has exhibited unconscionable moral blindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Joshua Mitchell&nbsp;is a senior fellow at&nbsp;Common Sense Society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/the-anti-liberal-crusade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the midst of the next great battle for human liberty.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Anti-Liberal Crusade - Common Sense Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are in the midst of the next great battle for human liberty.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsensesociety.org\/nl\/2023\/11\/14\/the-anti-liberal-crusade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Anti-Liberal Crusade\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every anti-liberal revolutionary movement since the French Revolution has offered followers its own version of redemption. 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