Last week, at our annual HSRM conference, I spoke on "Totalitarianism and Spiritual Warfare." Here are background resources I used, and referred to.
(I'll give this message in NYC on Sunday, July 23.)
The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt
Escape from Freedom, by Erich Fromm
The Quest for Community, by Robert Nisbet
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Benedict Option, by Rod Dreher (I got the idea of "soft totalitarianism" from Dreher)
Live Not by Lies, by Dreher
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, by Carl Trueman (On the triumph of the therapeutic)
Strange New World, by Trueman
The Coddling of the American Mind, by Johnathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
The State in the New Testament, by Oscar Cullman
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert Putnam
Why Liberalism Failed, by Patrick Deneen)
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (U. S. Surgeon General)
