Countercultural Idea of a Christian University

American liberties depend, in part, on American pluralism.  But not just any pluralism will do.  We need a pluralism rooted in a culture committed to the idea of truth, a culture that recognizes authority higher than individual autonomy.  And, among the many liberties associated with the American story, we are here interested in a certain liberty of groups against the liberty of a democratized mass.  Or, to put it as Pierre Manent does in A World Beyond Politics?, if “the idea of liberty prevail(s) completely over the idea of truth” liberty will be “deprived of its conflicting relationship with truth” and liberty will “collapse.”