A Nerd Can Dream

In a larger sense, however, the very question is an artifact of liberalism‘s myopic pragmatism. Government should be ordered to the common good. What falls out of that basic commitment is essentially a question of prudence in various circumstances, concretizing the natural law.

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) January 8, 2022

Just like a typical SoCon, pr0n makes the top of the list, even though he has no pathway for bringing any of this legislation about. Just some "great ideas" about what laws should be passed. Vermeule will never repudiate feminism nor consider it a political problem that needs to be addressed, and that shows his ignorance of what politial life requires.

A Definition of Communism

I take communism to be the doctrine that not just all property rights but all rights of any kind and hence all exercise of authority belongs properly to the State alone; and hence that if anyone else, such as a parent or teacher, exercises authority over anyone, it is as the

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) October 8, 2021

European "Conservatives"

Conservatives & the Market at the launch event for @EuroConOfficial. @gjpappin, @sancrucensis, @FantinoVienna, @FantinaVienna pic.twitter.com/vzQlVVUmvH

— Jeanette Pappin (@Jeanette_Pappin) September 21, 2021

Imperial Benevolence

No thanks.

As it should be - what a lovely sight https://t.co/STCYAym2am

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) August 26, 2021

“It is not acceptable for a wealthy country to frame immigration policy exclusively in terms of ‘what benefits us.’ The wealth of the world has been given to the whole human race, and we owe the needy a share in it.”
—@sancrucensis https://t.co/2VTXA56bDC

— Plough Quarterly (@Plough) August 26, 2021

A Critique of Common Good Constitutionalism

Exactly! Common good constitutionalism invites barking mad judges of right and left to indulge their own theocratic or far-left fantasies. https://t.co/ULPLjDnwnD

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) August 26, 2021

Not sure if I could agree with this either.

Latins Are Tweeting and Linking to This

What an American Catholic politics would look like https://t.co/GQHcxQF8Ok

— Matthew Walther (@matthewwalther) July 30, 2021

But it's the same old delusional Latin nationalist democracy nonsense that is a non-starter.

More Academics Earning a Paycheck

Really looking forward to chairing a stellar panel on ‘constitutionalism and the common good:classic and contemporary debates’.Some really top class senior and upcoming scholars here - will be great, come see! @Vermeullarmine @michaelpforan @rachaelawalsh @xavierfm3 @SpesScotorum pic.twitter.com/FYitdEfluX

— Conor Casey (@Caseyco231) July 6, 2021

Latin Integralist: The EU Isn't Integralist Enough

Alan Fimister

An excellent piece from Alan Fimister on the central failure of the European project: its emulation of the Church.https://t.co/Ha9m2Q6vEF

— Jamie McGowan (@SpesScotorum) June 29, 2021

A problem with Latin integralism is that integralists never have to back up their beliefs with any proof that what they advocate actually works. They can merely hide behind the appearance of "orthodoxy" and "loyalty" and "obedience."

An Integralist Hero? Or a Naive Pawn?

If you’d like a read on Schuman’s Catholic vision for Europe, and how it relates to integralism, this is always worthwhile: https://t.co/YzUt3Q8173

— Elena (@omnialnchristo) June 20, 2021

Damian Thompson Is Critical of a Latin Integralist

... in which I imply that certain pompous and smug Catholic Integralists really ought to seek professional help. https://t.co/UQUOXwMH0m

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) June 10, 2021

The Naivete of Academic Confessors of Latin Integralism

“The main goal of administrative law cannot be, exclusively, to constrain the leviathan. On the contrary, it should also enable the leviathan's action based on standards of good administration.” https://t.co/tgKOrZD5un

— Ius & Iustitium (@iusetiustitium) May 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating the relevance of this conclusion. Francis Fukuyama concluded, in March 2020, that the pandemic will illustrate the necessity of capable states. The idea that “liberal democracies necessarily have weak governments” is, in his view, a “popular misconception” because “all modern governments have developed a powerful executive branch because no society can survive without one.“

The pandemic is a unique opportunity to reflect on the necessity of an efficient administrative state. Not “big” or “small” government, but a capable administrative state aimed at promoting the common good.

Or COVID-19 provided an opportunity for oligarchs to increase their power - has the author ever considered that possibility?

The New Right

Forget Judeo-Christian. How about Judeo-Christian-Muslim values?

.⁦⁦@SohrabAhmari⁩ grew up as a secular Muslim and is now a religious Catholic who believes that an ancient Jewish idea can restore American culture. Here’s my ⁦@mosaicmag⁩ conversation with him about why Americans must recover the sabbath. https://t.co/IS3kdWX0sU

— Jonathan Silver (@JonathanLSilver) May 14, 2021

The Tikvah Podcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath https://t.co/ozVorR1Qb4

— Ricochet (@Ricochet) May 14, 2021

If we bring back blue laws, which day do we privilege? Sunday? Saturday? Friday? This "interfaith" multicultural conservatism is going nowhere. Even if there is a recognition in the law of the rights of workers to follow their religious conviction/conscience of not being forced to work on their religious day of rest, how can this be applied "fairly" to non-believers as well?

A Review of Unbroken Thread

My review of @SohrabAhmari’s Unbroken Thread, in which I read it as a sort of prolegomenon to a postliberal populist manifesto for the #NewRight.https://t.co/WiXE8UgR0W

— Daniel Addison (@derocrates) May 10, 2021

Making the Rounds

Friends, yesterday I invited @SohrabAhmari, the op-ed editor of the @NYpost, to our Santa Barbara studios to film another episode of “Bishop Barron Presents.”

Subscribe on YouTube to catch this episode and all other episodes of “Bishop Barron Presents”: https://t.co/U2lQVxRQ0A pic.twitter.com/ZxkFPIW8Jb

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) May 5, 2021

An Attempt to Summarize the Discussion of the Common Good

In the last couple of months, we've seen many discussions around the common good by greats such as @sancrucensis, @yhazony, @SohrabAhmari, @Vermeullarmine, etc.

I tried to summarize them here and give my humble opinion.

Enjoy and share:https://t.co/g8NoHc206q

— Edgar Beltrán ن (@edgarjbb_) April 30, 2021

Which shows how undeveloped it is with respect to the problem of the state.

"Sovereignty"

A consequence of the 'foedus' is that Sovereignty ultimately rests with the King of Scots. But if he should forfeit this right by breaching his duty to protect the common good, only then does the power to elect a new King pass to the people (i.e. Arbroath)

— Jamie McGowan (@SpesScotorum) April 6, 2021

Or Maybe Dante Was Right

No one is perfect or right about everything. Dante got Unam Sanctum and the two swords wrong. https://t.co/1pbpm4n9lY

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) March 25, 2021

Dante Was Wrong

Now apologists for the empire will talk about the subsidiarity that had to exist because the emperor was not in a position to consolidate his power, and so his actual exercise of authority over other polities was limited by physical distance and lack of manpower. If things had been different, would Dante and Latin integralists have been celebrating the fact? Maybe not Dante, but I have doubts about the neo-integralists.

In Dante’s account, the universal monarchy (empire) includes and sustains nations under the principle of subsidiarity https://t.co/8rPUZ2mkQs

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) March 16, 2021

Damian Thompson v. the (Neo-)Integralists

An excellent podcast from @holysmoke this week on Catholic Integralism. Very pertinent comments that twitter 'trad-caths' should consider. It bashes medieval LARPing; and argues that this sort of thing will never be electable. https://t.co/OuymEubBuO via @spectator

— Luke Doherty (@Luke_Doherty19) February 20, 2021

But Did You Take Scale and Homogeneity of the Population into Consideration?

This is very naive reasoning.

“Conservative” complaints about the impossibility or excessive ambition of major, state-run, functional family policy—that promotes family formation & stability—might have some credibility if there weren’t a country that had already done it successfully for a decade

— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) February 5, 2021