The New Puritans: How the Woke Became a Cult Without a God

They can survive dissent. They can survive debate. But they cannot survive the sound of laughter.

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When God dies, mankind does not stop kneeling; it merely lowers its sights.

The altar remains, but the idol gets more tawdry and flimsy. The hymns become hashtags, a diversity handbook replaces the Bible, and the cathedral is bulldozed in favour of the campus quad.

Thus arrives the modern academic Left—or rather, its noisiest, most humourless faction—a sect that has distilled every shrill instinct of the Puritans and married them to the worst habits of the cult. The result is an orthodoxy at once censorious and sanctimonious, as intolerant as Cotton Mather in full wi…