Theocracy v Democracy

The new political divide that will decide the US election

This is Who made our minds?, my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024).

ARE WE ENTERING a new dark age of religious hysteria?

Or are we descending into a modern Sodom of secular depravity?

Those questions underlie the politica…