Joshua Mitchell: American Awakening Connection
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Joshua Mitchell is the author of "American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time." He argues that America's political crisis has a religious origin and that the extremes of identity politics are an expression of a dislodged Christianity. The book exposes the spiritual disorders that are paralyzing public life and highlights some surprising reasons for hope. Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University and the author of numerous journal articles and four books including "Tocqueville in Arabia." Mitchell's research focuses on Western political philosophy and theology.
2:00 - Why Joshua wrote the book 5:00 - The new religion of politics 7:00 - Debt and the three economies 11:00 - The religion of identity politics 13:00 - "Purity" and the truth of the environmental cult 16:30 - "Clean vs. dirty" in Christianity and forgiveness 18:45 - Why Christianity is healthy 23:00 - How identity politics is affecting children 32:45 - The culture of narcissism, depression, and "too much and too little" 38:40 - Bounded freedom 43:30 - What identity politics gets right 47:00 - The heresy of identity politics 50:00 - How do we move forward in a secular society? 58:00 - Where conservatives get it wrong1:02:00 - The liberal politics of competence 1:06:00 - Solutions
Joshua Mitchell is the author of "American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time." He argues that America's political crisis has a religious origin and that the extremes of identity politics are an expression of a dislodged Christianity. The book exposes the spiritual disorders that are paralyzing public life and highlights some surprising reasons for hope. Mitchell is a professor of political theory at Georgetown University and the author of numerous journal articles and four books including "Tocqueville in Arabia." Mitchell's research focuses on Western political philosophy and theology.
2:00 - Why Joshua wrote the book 5:00 - The new religion of politics 7:00 - Debt and the three economies 11:00 - The religion of identity politics 13:00 - "Purity" and the truth of the environmental cult 16:30 - "Clean vs. dirty" in Christianity and forgiveness 18:45 - Why Christianity is healthy 23:00 - How identity politics is affecting children 32:45 - The culture of narcissism, depression, and "too much and too little" 38:40 - Bounded freedom 43:30 - What identity politics gets right 47:00 - The heresy of identity politics 50:00 - How do we move forward in a secular society? 58:00 - Where conservatives get it wrong1:02:00 - The liberal politics of competence 1:06:00 - Solutions
1 hr 19 min