Is The Intellectual Future Religious?

Between Allegory and History

Tyler Cowen hypothesizes that the most important thinkers of the future will be religious. I agree with Cowen and with his reasoning (full disclosure: I’m a rabbi and “theologian”).

I’m particularly drawn to Cowen’s claims that religious thought is:

1) less constrained by the scientific method than empiricism

2) culturally stickier than academic ideas

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