He at least offers a structural critique, not minor tweaks, to the liberal order. If a young person is feeling alienated and disempowered, he recognizes that th

He at least offers a structural critique, not minor tweaks, to the liberal order. If a young person is feeling alienated and disempowered, he recognizes that the solution isn't to just go to school or whatever watery prescription modern society might suggest. There are many conservative thinkers who, though they're basically irreligious, will tell young men to pull their pants up and take out the trash. Our moral landscape is such a wasteland that guys like this can tut about manners or whatever and he seems like a prophetic genius. He's a thoroughgoing Jungian and a mediocre philosopher. He gets sassy with reporters, which people like, I guess. But he's still going to situate the problems with modern society with a couple of french theorists rather than the forces that actually affect people's daily lives. I'd also argue that his popularity is a sign that people still really, really want religion/religious guidance in some form.