While political fortunes ebb and flow, our destiny remains in our own hands. That balanced approach to the newly installed Biden-Harris administration guides this issue of Religion & Liberty, which is a special one for me.

Alexander W. Salter offers his first contribution. “We’re in the midst of a constitutional revolution,” he warns. “Constitutional drift refers to the tendency for de facto government to diverge from de jure government,” he writes. He offers little hope, except that this nation will experience a new birth of freedom, one individual at a time.

Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez turns his gimlet eye on critical theory, the “bizarre ideology,” which “has, sadly, e our new state religion.”

The Discovery Institute’s Wesley J. Smith warns that “something authoritarian this es”: a coordinated attempt to force Christian medical providers to perform abortions, gender reassignment surgeries, and assisted suicides. Preserving the right of Christians and other faithful believers to express their values in their work life is “the next civil rights struggle.”

Bradley Birzer and Ray Nothstine glean insights from the lives of Russell Kirk and Eugene McCarthy.

We pause to remember Walter Williams and take a somewhat tongue-in-cheek view of how “socialism” can succeed.

On a personal note, this is my final issue as Executive Editor. You will appreciate the way economics motivated my decision to decline another year at the Acton Institute. Although our journey es to an end – or at least a pause – with this issue, the quality of the talented writers in these pages gives me solace. Please join me in mitting yourself to the Lord, to liberty, and to the U.S. Constitution understood through the original intent of our Founding Fathers. Please stay in touch. And until we meet again, God bless.