French radical Secularism, the closed society, and unreasonable views.

A few weeks ago, Cyril Hédoin responded insightfully and constructively (here) to an essay I recently published in Liberal Currents. Subsequently, he did a follow up piece in which he assimilated my stance on what I call the ‘platonic skepticism’ of liberals about the rule of opinion in public life into a larger framework about different kinds of skepti…