Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Young

These millennials and Gen Zers sense the hollowness of the postmodern cultural wasteland. They also reject the shallowness of the mainline Protestant churches that have watered-down supernatural truths and exalted the trivial. These online pilgrims detest the barren, ugly and brutal aspects of modern life. They want something real and profound. Their penchant for returning to the Middle Ages represents the liberals’ worst nightmare. What disconcerts liberals is not the attraction these young Christians have for traditional forms, but their rejection of the liberal order’s a-metaphysical foundation. That rejection is accelerated by the political and economic breakdown of that order wrought by the coronavirus.