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Welcome. My name is Dan Huger, librarian and research associate at the Acton Institute.

Today I am joined by Kevin Vallier. Kevin is professor of philosophy at the University of Toledo,

where he is associate director at the Institute

of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership. He is also an affiliate scholar here at the

Acton Institute. Today we'll be discussing his essay in the summer 2025 issue of religion

and liberty, The Fusionist Manifesto. Is Is fusionism dead or is it just getting started?

Kevin, welcome to Act in Line and thank you for being with us. It's great to be here as always.

We've got another episode of you and I talking fusionism. And there will be more.

Yeah. And last time we talked about sort of the riddle of fusionism. There's this

specter of fusionism haunting sort of the American conservative movement. Even the folks who

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