By comparison, the present era is one of great openness. Although religions have been afforded great space in which to move, intellectuals 'critiques have largely disappeared, leaving a bit of a vacuum.
對照起來，現在則是開放到甚至放任的地步，雖然有很大的空間，但是知識分子的批判精神反而消失，甚至有點冷漠。