Return of the Strong Gods Quotes

“The West needs to restore a sense of transcendent purpose to public (and private) life. Our time—this century—begs for a politics of loyalty and solidarity, not openness and deconsolidation. We don’t need more diversity and innovation. We need a home. And for that, we will require the return of the strong gods.”
― R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West

“Today, the greatest threat to the political health of the West is not fascism or a resurgent Ku Klux Klan but a decline in solidarity and the breakdown of the trust between leaders and the led.”
― R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West

“Today, the greatest threat to the political health of the West is not fascism or a resurgent Ku Klux Klan but a decline in solidarity and the breakdown of the trust between leaders and the”
― R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West

“Our danger is a dissolving society, not a closed one; the therapeutic personality, not the authoritarian one.”
― R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West