Brave New World

What if the greatest threat to human freedom isn't the tyrant who takes your rights, but the state that makes you forget you ever had them?

Our study guide for Brave New World connects Huxley's dystopia to the real history of Bismarck's Kulturkampf, the invention of the modern welfare state, and the Church's ongoing battle for the conscience of the laity. We explore how the de-formation of conscience works, why the state always targets sexuality and family first, and why even in the darkest dystopia, Christ has already won.