There is no one I've heard in the past decade who is more radical, advocating a radicalism that is more likely to be congenial to Americans, more likely to influence governments, the making of new laws and policies and real benefits to real lives than Marilynne Robinson.
This lecture is one I hope will be available in print because it is full of insights into both what led us away from a truly humanist future, equal, just, generous and liberal in the name of Enlightenment radicalism. And it is a rare thing for an American radical, honestly generous about the promises that have and still exist in our own tradition. She touches just about everything in it from how our universities have decayed under utilitarian and scientistic hegemony to presidential campaigns. She defends the real humanism and its value, entirely more than the degraded atheist religion going by the same name, the only thing that so many of those with currently degraded educations know as "Humanism".
But the best thing is to listen to her.
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