Doing Nothing

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Apr 29, 2026 · 6m

In “Doing Nothing” (Chalcedon Report No. 159), Rushdoony argues that Western society’s failure to resist tyranny is not intellectual confusion but religious apostasy, rooted in a shared humanism that unites both democratic and communist systems. Solzhenitsyn’s critique unsettled the West because he exposed the uncomfortable truth that Marxism and Western statism spring from the same faith: the sovereignty of man and the state rather than God. As a result, persecutions of Christians—whether in Soviet labor camps or American courtrooms targeting Christian schools and parents—are met largely…