Law & Liberty carries part 2 of my series on rethinking the Right in light of Whittaker Chambers, this one on the temptation of economic reductionism:

Goldberg wants to have what Chambers called the communist vision (a godless universe) without the communist faith (a willingness to reorder society on the assumption that there is nothing higher than the human mind). That is unsustainable. As Bahnsen and Brian Mattson write: “A widespread effort to pretend to believe in God will not stave off suicide.”

Part 1 covered the temptation of nationalism; Part 3, next week, will cover the temptation of romantic nostalgia. Stay tuned!