Does America’s Far-Proper Choose the Darkish Ages to the Renaissance? | by Jeff Miller | Could, 2025
Take a quiz and discover out
I take pleasure in thumbing by way of outdated books in thrift shops. In a current outing I ran throughout some cowl notes in a tattered paperback that summarized the Renaissance as follows: “The interval was characterised by the institution of the scientific methodology, the rise of free inquiry, the expansion of commerce…Within the arts and literature, Greek antiquity was rediscovered and was mirrored within the drama by the reassertion of the dignity and worth of human life, the great thing about nature, and the enjoyment of residing.”
Within the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency, the cultural legacies of the Renaissance are nowhere to be discovered. Certainly, guided by the authors of Mission 2025, the far proper has begun dismantling the Renaissance-inspired infrastructure of recent American life, from science and legislation to training and commerce.
The implications have a medieval vibe that appears extra in step with 1025 than 2025. With that in thoughts, I’ve listed beneath 10 traits of the Medieval world (in italics) with an identical variety of factual statements about present occasions.
See if you happen to can pair the listing of entries and are available to your individual conclusion about our future as residents of a democracy or as topics and serfs.
