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Reason Video

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news

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en

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Yes

First episode

1 Mar 2023

Latest episode

29 Jun 2026

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   29 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The American Revolution Isn't Over

   Reason's Nick Gillespie interviews author Stephanie Slade about how the ongoing ideological battle of the American Revolution shapes contemporary political theory and challenges.

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The American Revolution Isn't Over

Published 29 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Critics of the progressive agenda, or wokeness, often describe it as its own kind of religion. In his book, Woke Racism, Columbia University linguist John McWhorter writes about how this movement casts out heretics and is infused with evangelical fervor. And I think that it's slowly transmogrified. into a kind of replacement for Protestantism, as it eclipses, where your grace is that you are not a racist. And the parallels with religion, especially evangelical religion, are almost uncanny, especially given that most of these people kind of look askance at Christianity in its more extreme forms. […]

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