{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/692d66fb9b21443f851785bb/6ac0fd2c52a53844442ca91e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Strong Gods | Maiden Mother Matriarch 216","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/692d66fb9b21443f851785bb/1791032405858-e6108215-1764-4d09-bb19-43cfe147891d.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In 2019, Rusty Reno – editor of First Things magazine – published ‘Return of the Strong Gods’, a book that argued that the postwar ideological order of tolerance and openness had overreached, and that we were set to see the reemergence of “strong gods” in politics—that is, the powerful loyalties that bind people to their homelands and to one another.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, Rusty and I return to this thesis seven years on. Populism is certainly ascendent, and not only in the United States. Should we be worried about the pendulum swinging too far in the other direction? Or should the “strong gods” be welcomed?</p>","author_name":"Louise Perry"}