The Cold Civil War

A nation divided not by battlefields but by bandwidths. A world united not by truth but by code.

In The Dark Enlightenment: The Cold Civil War, Dr. Justin Goldston delivers a monumental synthesis of philosophy, technology, and theology-revealing how the 21st century's silent war for meaning has replaced bullets with algorithms, and propaganda with predictive code.

From the digital surveillance state to AI psychosis, from cultural polarization to spiritual exhaustion, Goldston charts the moral architecture of a civilization at war with itself. Yet this is not a book of despair-it is a blueprint for renewal.

Through the frameworks of Philosophy in Action, Faith Hackers, and The Berkeley Trials, Goldston constructs a unified theory of civilization:

Philosophy in Action defines moral praxis as the antidote to ideological decay.

Faith Hackers merges theology and technology, showing how forgiveness can be refactored like code.

The Berkeley Trials exposes how artificial intelligence fractures the human psyche-and how ethics must evolve to survive machine consciousness.

These ideas converge in The Cold Civil War-a sweeping, humanities-based diagnosis of our era of fragmentation. Goldston redefines democracy as a covenant of trust rather than a system of control, education as the battlefield of the mind, and faith as the final frontier of human freedom.

In this landmark work, the Humanities reclaim their sacred role: not as the study of what was, but as the design of what must come next.

Inside This VolumeThe Cold Civil War: America's ideological fracture as a new kind of warfare

AI and the Soul: How technology inherits the attributes of divinity

The Surveillance Society: The moral theology of visibility and control

Education and Truth: Rebuilding the mind of a fragmented Republic

Faith and Myth: Re-enchanting the secular world through moral imagination

Reconciliation and Renewal: A practical blueprint for democratic restoration