John McWhorter's controversial series of articles argues that conservative religion and the anti-racist movement, as a subsidiary of today's progressive liberalism, have much in common. Brett argues that analyzing the tone of today's debate about racial issues in the context of philosophical history reveals a culture in revolt against the reality of what Charles Taylor calls our "Secular Age."

John McWhorter articles mentioned into today's show: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/why-third-wave-anti-racism-dead-end/578764/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/