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In the mid-20th century, in the heat of Popper's and Hayek's open-minded theories and with the horrors of World War II still painfully etched on the community retina, Western political elites came to an unfortunate conclusion: that strong claims? God, nation, truth, justice, etc.? they inexorably led to violence and that, therefore, had to be replaced by weak, soft, relative affirmations. In this way, they promoted a change whose effects continue to manifest themselves today. The notion of? Meaning? replaced the one of? truth ?, the one of? equity? to that of? justice? and that of? diversity? to? cohesion ?; At the same time that politics, a discipline once oriented to the common good, was degenerating into a mere management of particular interests and national identities were dissolving into a homogenizing cosmopolitanism. In The Return of the Strong Gods, R.R. Reno analyzes this process and luminously relates it to the political upheavals that today, at the dawn of the 21st century, are shaking the foundations of the postwar consensus. According to Reno, those destabilizing events that the media elite collects under the term? Populism? they are indeed expressions of the same epiphenomenon, or echoes of the same roar: that of the strong gods, who have finally awakened from their slumber.