" A secular approach to politics first took root in the universities, the seedbed where worldviews are planted and nurtured. As William Galston of the Brookings Institution explains, in the modern age, scholars decided that the study of politics must be “scientific”—by which they meant value free.1 As a consequence, political theory was no longer animated by a moral vision. It became purely pragmatic. "

― Nancy R. Pearcey , Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning