God-Smuggling as Revolutionary Act

‘The Dying Painter’ by Hermine Laukota (1880)

…we can see crises of liberalism as… a slackening of …imaginative power.

–Blake Smith, Just Another Liberalism? Hedgehog Review(spring 2025)

Embattled liberals too often seem to respond to [intolerances of the right that are] extensions of imagination merely with scolding, petulance and fear-mongering, forgetting the utopian function that Foucault set alongside fear of the state as the essence of liberalism.

–Ibid.

[W]hat...