C.S. Lewis on the Specter of Totalitarianism

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“We’re less familiar with Lewis the political thinker. But in the almost 60 years since he passed away… we’ve come to learn more and more about Lewis’ significant interests in, and concerns about, politics.” - Acton

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Brave New World or 1984?

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“I have long pondered whether Brave New World or 1984 was more plausible as the fate of the West. But just the other day it finally dawned on me that the right answer to this question is not one or the other: it is both!” - Credo

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Are Western Christians Facing a Totalitarian Threat from the Left? -- A Review of Rod Dreher's ‘Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents’

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“My point isn’t that Dreher is wrong to warn against cultural currents that may sweep us into soft totalitarianism. I only wish he had explored how this tendency toward soft totalitarianism could wind up being as much a feature of a nationalist surge from the far right as it could the elitist ‘top down’ from the far left.” - TGC

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