IN HIS latest article at The Brussels Journal, Thomas F. Bertonneau examines the work of the French thinker René Guénon, who coined the term “mystic socialism” to describe nineteenth century strains of  Protestantism which continue to infuse modern-day liberalism with sentimental moralism. “Humanitarianism, pacifism, anti-alcoholism, and vegetarianism [are] ideas that are at root sentimental,” wrote Guénon, who died in 1951 and stands among those who consider the Renaissance and Reformation to be the “starting point of the modern crisis.”

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