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What Is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson

Ideology replaces respect for the dignity of the human person with celebration of a new humanity required for its perfected social and political order.
The attraction of subjecting oneself to ideological thought, then, is a new form of something very old: the desire to escape the limitations and uncertainties of the human condition of knowledge and action by availing ourselves of a greater-than-human power.
A great war was fought. Slavery was abolished. Still, on this fourth and fifth of July, 168 years after Frederick Douglass gave voice to feelings of alienation from white American pride and patriotism, recent events compel us to recognize that such feelings persist.