#political-theory

#political-theory

Earlier this week, I expressed exasperation at the seeming irrelevance of what I used to teach in American government classes in the context of what's going on now. Old standbys like "checks and balances," "equal protection of the law" and "judicial review" seem to have been discarded in favor of what Lionel Trilling called "a series of irritable mental gestures." I couldn't imagine how I would teach the class now.

The cathedral, a term coined by Yarvin in his blog Unqualified Reservations in 2007, describes the elite institutions shaping public opinion and enforcing ideological conformity.