N. S. Lyons / Nathan Levine: "American Strong Gods: Trump and the End of the Long 20th Century"

I find a lot of this very interesting.

   A fair bit of it is too sweeping, hand-wavey and conservative for me...but I do think it's interesting and worth considering.

   The stuff about Hitler as secular Satan, and Hitler's second career is damn interesting, I say. 

   But I'm skeptical of such big, sweeping accounts. Lots of places it could go wrong, and I'm not strong enough in history to catch mistakes on that front.

   I'm embarrassed to say that I've never actually read Poppers The Open Society And Its Enemies... I've read parts of it, but not enough to know whether Lyons/Levine is right about Poppers general view of the "open society"...but it's big if true. I thought Soros was betraying the memory of Popper...but it may be that he's actually got him right. And that would certainly make a lot of sense--he actually knew him well... I've really only read Popper's philosophy of science. And the stuff in TOS about the paradox of tolerance.