Worshipping the Future Podcast #2
Helen & Lorenzo talk about the book they're writing
Greetings from warm & sunny Tenerife!
As promised to paid subscribers late last year,
& I are pleased to present our second discussion of Worshipping the Future—a series of essays now well on the way to being a published book—as well as issues arising from our writing elsewhere.In this podcast, we discuss Lorenzo’s three essays in response to Nathan Cofnas (here, here, and here) along with my review—which ran yesterday—of
’s Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class for Law & Liberty.There are things I think Henderson has achieved (perhaps unintentionally) in his book that I didn’t cover in the review, for the simple reason that reviews must be of reasonable length. One is, after all, encouraging people to go away and read a further 300-400 pages on the same topic.
Lorenzo and I discuss those things in the pre-recorded chat.
Lorenzo’s approach draws on three core ideas:
His use of what he calls “the evolutionary lens” when thinking about the social sciences, especially economics.
The extent to which modern progressivism is wedded to the idea that it’s possible to get information from the future, which in turn explains why Lorenzo calls it “post-Enlightenment progressivism” rather than “woke”.
How post-Enlightenment progressivism represents an evolutionarily adaptive strategy—something that makes it more difficult to defeat in “the marketplace of ideas”.
As we often offer at Not On Your Team, But Always Fair, here’s a link to a 25 per cent discount on an annual subscription. That link will expire on Thursday March 14th.
Please don’t feel you have to watch the whole thing at once. We’ve structured it in such a way that you can listen to it in chunks, come back to bits of it later, and so on. It’s also somewhat tailored to a US and Canadian audience, as it’s our North American subscribers who’ve missed out on Chatham House chats most due to inconvenient time zones.
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