Maritain's Liberalism vs. "Illiberalism"

What does scholasticism have to say about politics today? Lee Trepanier considers in his latest review of Jacques Maritain’s “Scholasticism and Politics,” a @Liberty_Fund classic: https://t.co/TLyvroDwvh

— Law & Liberty (@LawLiberty) July 6, 2021

Enlisting Maritain to Support Civic Nationalism

Americans are in the midst of an important debate about the virtues and dangers of nationalism. Unfortunately, interlocutors are not always clear about what "nationalism" means. Distinctions from the work of Jacques Maritain can help clarify matters. https://t.co/p466IMHLzp

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 8, 2020

Public Discourse

Smith quotes Maritain's definition of nation but ignores its implications for identity and immigration:

The word Nation originates from the Latin nasci, that is, from the notion of birth, but the nation is not something biological, like the Race. It is something ethico-social: a human community based on the fact of birth and lineage, yet with all the moral connotations of those terms: birth to the life of reason and the activities of civilization, lineage in familial traditions, social and juridical formation, cultural heritage, common conceptions and manners, historical recollections, sufferings, claims, hopes, prejudices, and resentments.

Any (correct) interpretation of Maritain that would imply some sort of ethnonationalism (or "nationalism," if the meaning of nation had not been subverted by the state) would be too unpleasant for respectable conservatives like Smith to consider.

Bruderhof Selling the Nationalist Myth

Maritain seems to have bought into it as well.

"America has failed that expectation over and over, even to this very day. But this is the national promise and possibility against which it must be corrected and toward which it must always strive.

— Plough Publishing (@PloughBooks) June 1, 2020

“What the world expects from America is that she keep alive, in human history, a fraternal recognition of the dignity of man,” Maritain said. https://t.co/CUDTFxIFoH

— Plough Publishing (@PloughBooks) June 1, 2020

As Anabaptists, shouldn't they know better? Or are they Anabaptist SJWs?

Items of Interest, 2 October 2012

Mystagogy: Japanese Fighter Baptized Orthodox Christian

Catholic Music: It’s Time to Stop Making Stuff Up by Jeffrey Tucker

Tea With Honey But Not in Jerusalem: The Archbishop of Canterbury Makes His Peace With Post-Christian England by Tracey Rowland

Veteran Soldiers Go Organic

Thaddeus Kozinski, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism

Eugene Genovese:
Redeeming the Time by Eugene D. Genovese
The New Republic: From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Squandered Century
by Eugene Genovese
Paul Gottfried, Eric Hobsbawm and the Totalitarian Double Standard

AmCon:
More from Rod Dreher on the SSJ
Jack Hunter, Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Kevin Gutzman, Misjudging Rehnquist
PJB, Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravels

Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Rigging the Presidential Debates
Paul Craig Roberts, Cynthia McKinney on Leadership

[Intellectual] Property:
An interview with Silke Helfrich: “We have to reformulate the role of the state as enabler of the commons”
Is Property Theft?

Automobiles and Driving:
Dmitry Orlov, In Praise of Anarchy, Part 1
Occupy the Motor Industry

Music:
Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and Newfound Fame
Waylon Jennings: The 'Last Recordings' Of A Dreamer

Square Dance History Project Launches New Website - here

Items of Interest, 22 March 2012

John Michael Greer, America Crossing the Line

Thaddeus Kozinski, Sacred Ambivalence: A Reflection on Remi Brague’s “Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible”

Fabius Maximus: America enters the dreamland, part of our culture of defeat

Joseph G. Trabbic interviews Raymond Dennehy on two recently republished books by Jacques Maritain: The Return of Thomistic Political Philosophy, Part I and Part II

Jordan Bloom, If the Individual Mandate is Constitutional, the Commerce Clause has No Limits

John Médaille, The Music of The Spheres and The Terminally Tone-Deaf

Paul Gottfried, Tea Party Constitutionalism

James Antle, Weak Tea

Gay marriage is now the issue through which the elite advertises its superiority over the redneck masses





Réunion du Pape Shenouda III-21.04.2010:Le péché de langue

pathways radio: The Economics of Happiness (mp3)

Energy:
Tom Murphy Interview: Resource depletion is a bigger threat than climate change by James Stafford (EB)

Catholic:
In Defense of Bells: Their Use and History in the Roman Liturgy
Byzantine liturgy in Chinese ‘a success’
I wish that some audio or video were available.

Mgr Lefebvre + s'abandonner à Dieu

Feminism:
No Long Ladies
Trampling the Nag
St. Birgitta: The Disjunction Between Women and Ecclesiastical Power
The Vulgate Genesis and St. Jerome’s Attitudes to Women

Education:
Cultivating the Affections by Dr. Peter Vande Brake

Movies:
Steve Sailer reviews Whit Stillman's latest.

Music:
Performing in the Bay Area this weekend: Brittany Haas and Lauren Rioux
Two rising stars in the Appalachian fiddle world come together for a mini 'fiddle festival'

Pat's Product Review: Benchmade CSK II - Combat/Survival Knife

AH-64 Apache mishap caught on video

Beatification process for Jacques and Raissa Maritain in the works

Beatification process for Jacques and Raissa Maritain in the works

James Matthew Wilson, The Treasonous Clerk: Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic, Part V