THE EPITAPH FOR TECHNOCRACY?

Rod Dreher weighs in on the folly of letting Contemporary Experts renovate Notre Dame de Paris.

Their performance in Coventry wasn't that great.  He writes, "The Nazi barbarians destroyed a medieval cathedral. Christians replaced it with Our Lady of The Department Of Motor Vehicles:"

Claudio Divio photograph from Shutterstock retrieved from The American Conservative.

It might be more precise to say that technocrats professing to be Christians built that Brutalist cathedral.  As such, it is a metaphor, like stroads, urban renewal, the Great Society, and the European Union, of the errors of technocracy.  The saecular challenge is in limiting the power of technocrats to do wrong, and of identity politics types to revert to the primitive, without giving up the gains of three millennia.