MODERN AGE WINTER 2016 principles in his call to make the world safe for democracy that he fails to notice how fundamentally Protestant First Things' version of American Catholicism had become. Bottum laments that Protestantism no longer provides the third voice of America's other two pillars of (liberal) democracy and capitalism, but there is ample evidence that the two are what is left once Protestantism is distilled into its ultimate political and economic forms. To the extent that the political left has taken up the banner of egalitarian democracy and the right defends capitalism, it is arguable that we have reached the culmination of Protestantism's trajectory-statist collectivism versus libertarian individualism, both being two sides of the same liberal coin. An actual "Catholic moment" would challenge these false antinomies and, by definition, would require a fundamental rethinking of the deepest assumptions of the American regime. This idea, of course, is a deep source of anxiety, suggesting that we still have a way to go before we can truly enter an anxious age. 136