The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Freddie Gray

Beginning with Plato, and carried over in the Christian tradition, western political thought has been wedded to the proposition that justice and virtue can be achieved in history through the adoption of proper norms. Hannah Arendt termed this “the tyranny of truth,” and its effect is to transform politics into a religious exercise through commitments to metaphysical propositions like truth or goodness. The tumultuous political aftermath that formed the wake of Freddie Gray's crucifixion in Balti