Three immediate thoughts re Roger’s article https://quillette.com/2025/06/10/classical-liberalism-without-strong-gods-open-society-popper/:

1. I remembered reading “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Appiah, 2006) years ago. A unifying moral liberal secular idea of how societies might function.  I remember recommending it to many friends. Quite bracing, I should re-read.

1. There are moral lessons to be drawn from established religion.  The importance of an institutional mechanism for forgiveness in society.  Egalitarianism.  Charity.  Many of society’s best ideas are distilled into religious tenets in admittedly simplistic but comprehensible forms. Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water.

1. https://www.themontrealreview.com/Articles/Moral_Particulars_in_Literature.php Happened to read this in the same feed session, some coincidence, huh?