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A reminder about Harvard Law Prof Adrian Vermeule.

‘Vermeule is confident that his fellow Americans will eventually learn to love theocracy:

Subjects [writes Vermeule] will come to thank the ruler whose legal strictures, possibly experienced at first as coercive, encourage subjects to form more authentic desires for the individual and common goods, better habits, and beliefs that better track and promote communal well-being.’

Margaret Soltan, October 17, 2020 2:09AM
Posted in: democracy, forms of religious experience

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