Nancy Pearcey

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.