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Return of the Strong Gods (Book Review)

By: Ed Kung Apr 3, 2025

First of all, what an incredible name for a book. It calls to mind Neil Gaiman’s classic work, American Gods, and it deals with many of the same themes. Namely, the fundamental idea that humans are worshippers, and that even if we throw off the Old Gods, we end up embracing new ones—whether consciously or not. The question, according to Reno, is who are the Old Gods that we cast off, what is the new God we’ve embraced, and are the Old Gods set to return? Unlike Gaiman’s classic, Return is not a work of fiction but a piece of intellectual history. It traces the roots of a set of ideas embraced by modern Western elites, which Reno dubs the post war consensus.

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Apr 3

2025

Return of the Strong Gods (Book Review)

By: Ed Kung Category: Book Review

First of all, what an incredible name for a book. It calls to mind Neil Gaiman’s classic work, American Gods, and it deals with many of the same themes. Namely, the fundamental idea that humans are worshippers, and that even if we throw off the Old Gods, we end up embracing new ones—whether consciously or not. The question, according to Reno, is who are the Old Gods that we cast off, what is the new God we’ve embraced, and are the Old Gods set to return? Unlike Gaiman’s classic, Return is not a work of fiction but a piece of intellectual history. It traces the roots of a set of ideas embraced by modern Western elites, which Reno dubs the post war consensus.