History

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · May 13, 2026 · 7m

In “History” (Chalcedon Report No. 108), Rushdoony argues that history is not merely a record of past events but the remembered past shaped by faith, memory, and meaning, making it a fundamental obstacle to statist efforts to remake man. Because historical consciousness roots people in inherited loyalties, beliefs, and moral judgments, modern humanism seeks to erase history through statist education and “social sciences,” replacing memory with rootlessness and presenting this alienation as freedom. By denying God’s providential meaning in history and insisting that history has no objective…