Liberals and the Libel of “Christian Nationalism”

By |2024-03-07T18:56:33-06:00March 7th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Christianity, Civil Society, Civilization, Liberalism|

Christ gave His disciples the Divine Commission to go and teach all nations, baptizing them. Christians are called to change society—all society, every society. They pursue this goal with charity and zeal, respecting the free will of individuals. Wherever Christianity has gone, its charity has transformed nations and peoples. Whenever the extreme left is in [...]

Keeping Asian-Americans in Their Place

By |2024-02-22T05:58:52-06:00February 21st, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Education, Joseph Mussomeli, Liberalism, Politics, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

We should not try to right one historic wrong by committing a new one. After enduring over a century of white racism, now the Asian-American community must cope with a more subtle but just as sinister form of liberal racism: the harsh Orwellian reality that in modern America all minorities are equal, but some minorities [...]

Christopher Lasch on the Elites’ Betrayal of Democracy

By |2024-01-09T18:06:27-06:00January 9th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Books, Community, Liberalism, Politics, Populism|

Though a self-described "man of the left," Christopher Lasch was once and always a populist. By the end of his life, he was concerned with the rise to power of American elites who, as of the mid-1990s, were already alien to—and divorced from—the masses of ordinary American citizens. The Revolt of the Elites and the [...]

Religion Without Consequences

By |2023-12-09T13:49:54-06:00December 9th, 2023|Categories: Christianity, John Horvat, Liberalism, Religion|

Consequential religion strikes fear in those who tragically have no faith. When they see that some believe firmly in a loving and Almighty God who takes an active role in worldly affairs, they sense the power of religion, and they suddenly become irrelevant. We live in times of inconsequential religion. That means most people do [...]

Overcoming Integralism With More Liberalism?

By |2023-11-15T05:48:44-06:00November 14th, 2023|Categories: Books, Catholicism, John Horvat, Liberalism|

It is time to abandon the liberal charade that society must function as if God does not exist. Instead, the world must again turn to God, to Saint Augustine’s “beauty so ancient and so new,” which will bring peace to today’s restless hearts. All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, [...]

What Is Liberalism?

By |2023-08-19T09:06:54-05:00August 11th, 2023|Categories: Christendom, Christianity, Culture, Liberalism, New Polity, Politics|

While preceding generations have simply taken liberalism for granted as the given context within which we make practical judgments about many other things, the current generation seems willing to raise astonishingly bold questions regarding liberalism itself. Is it the only possible way to think about politics? Is it the “best regime”? Essential questions are “untimely” [...]

Patrick Deneen on the Need for Regime Change

By |2023-08-01T15:47:15-05:00August 1st, 2023|Categories: American Republic, Books, Community, Liberalism, Politics|

Political philosopher that he is, Patrick Deneen is preoccupied with the eternal question of the few versus the many. How to balance their interests? How to reconcile their differences? He hopes that a “mixed regime” will force the few and the many to learn from each other, while correcting the abuses and excesses of each [...]

Capitalism Produces Socialism

By |2023-07-30T11:12:35-05:00June 19th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Free Markets, Liberalism, New Polity, Socialism|

There is a lot of talk these days about an increasing interest in socialism. It is quite the conundrum if approached within the assumptions of late liberalism: why indeed would the victors in the Cold War seek to become their vanquished enemies? Pope Pius XI helps us through this problem. He helps us see that [...]

Properly Seeing the Past in Order to Imagine a Better Future

By |2023-08-19T08:36:48-05:00June 11th, 2023|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, History, Humanum, Liberalism, Politics|

If we approach history through the lens of a twenty-first-century secular liberal, we will necessarily see history as a series of events that conform to the labels and forms of secular liberalism. We will be limited in what we see in the past and, thus, necessarily limit what we can propose for the future. In [...]

The Conflict Over History

By |2023-05-16T18:01:36-05:00May 16th, 2023|Categories: History, Liberalism|

The erosion of history is the first necessary step to the left’s transformation of the foundations of culture and society—a transformation that sees an ahistorical all-powerful government replacing all other traditional civic institutions. A recent report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed a dramatic fall in history test scores among eighth graders. Given [...]

The Left vs. Natural Law

By |2023-05-15T19:12:04-05:00May 15th, 2023|Categories: John Horvat, Liberalism, Natural Law|

Natural law terrifies the left, which assumed it had long ago died. Leftists cannot admit that there might be those who welcome ordered liberty and restraint. They cannot see that nihilism awaits on the other side of a flawed legal positivist system that will lead to every mode of emptiness and despair. The left is [...]

Liberalism as Heresy

By |2023-08-14T15:35:40-05:00March 21st, 2023|Categories: Christianity, Hope, Liberalism, New Polity|

Even in this darkness, there is hope. Because liberalism is a Christian heresy, it has held and still does hold the breach between the peace and the coming darkness, when anti-Christian technocratic power will be all in all. And in this time that liberalism has bought us, we can act, pray, and by the power [...]

Censorship: The Tip of the Iceberg

By |2023-03-21T17:21:34-05:00March 21st, 2023|Categories: Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Liberalism|

A history of the transformation of American liberalism over the past half-century could well be told with just a focus on free speech and censorship. But this story of changed attitudes toward censorship yields lessons far beyond just the liberal attitude toward free speech. Aside from the inevitability of death and taxes, there is another [...]

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