So it may therefore not be possible to prevent the burgeoning of ever more scoundrel cascades in a society that no longer holds itself to moral standards beyond its own changeable devising. (For the definition of a scoundrel cascade, see here.) The Founders’ ideal of political liberty cocooned within a social order is now rapidly giving way to a radical interpretation of individual rights without concurrent responsibilities. That interpretation threatens rather than supports political liberty because it invites the state to engage in soft despotism to ensure the implementation of the new secular catechism, one whose core is defined not by a belief in any intransient verity, but rather by the impossibility of any such thing. How long will it be before the anti-foundationalists among us persuade enough people that “a way of life worth defending” isn’t even a coherent statement? - https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/01/15/testing-the-war-of-ideas-2/