Reddit mentions of The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

According to Moldbug their core is ultra-Americanism. Progressivism has always been steeped in the halls of power - our universities and press. It is the dominant intellectual tradition of the United States. Harvard, Yale, the Ivy Leages? They were founded as Puritan seminaries. And it is this Puritanism which has been nurtured through the mainline Protestant sects. After 1950 this intellectual tradition entered a "post-Christian" phase which we can more readily identify with Progressives as we understand them now.

It starts in the Universities. They train the teachers. The teachers brainwash the kids. The kids become even more rabid than the teachers. They grow up to become Professors and teachers. The cycle continues, spinning out into a positive feedback loop of increasing liberalism.


http://www.amazon.com/Making-American-Thinking-Class-Intelligentsia/dp/0195149823

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postchristianity


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant