Stanley Hauerwas

“Many people confuse being on the right side of history with having a life worth living.” —Stanley Hauerwas

Watch theologian Hauerwas’s talk at the Plough Writers' Weekend:https://t.co/DbwpTy5wI0

— Plough Quarterly (@Plough) August 17, 2021

Wendell Berry's Communitarianism

Mark Cooprider explores Wendell Berry's plea with his readers to find joy and fulfillment—the motivations at the heart of Huck Finn and Christopher McCandless—not in escape and isolation, but in willing membership and participation in community life. https://t.co/u0topQmnEA pic.twitter.com/i5UJF8aX6i

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) May 27, 2021

Is it a sufficient response to identity politics? No.

Philip Bess, "The Architecture of an Urbanist Natural Law Principle"

The Architecture of an Urbanist Natural Law Principle https://t.co/2L2uwJhWUA

— Rick Garnett (@RickGarnett) May 15, 2021

Wendell Berry in 1981

At the first ever E.F. Schumacher Lectures in 1981, farmer and novelist, Wendell Berry, spoke about what links us to a home place and how that connection results in a "husbandry" that benefits people, land, and community.

We recommend giving it a listen:https://t.co/c5Wjcc2szx

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) May 11, 2021

Charles Hugh Smith Links

My conversation with Ryan McCormick on the 4th Turning, Polarization and finding community https://t.co/smq8H5JDC5

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) April 25, 2021

Jesse, Mark and I discuss supply-chain vulnerabilities, per capita energy consumption and the Network State-- AxisOfEasy Salon #42: Is System Change Likely, Possible or Inevitable? https://t.co/9geKPTjvNe

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) April 23, 2021

Richard Bonugli and I discuss stagnant bank loan books, stagnant wages and plummeting money velocity https://t.co/YpfzimKlMC

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) April 22, 2021

Max and Stacy and I discuss fatal synergies and cultural revolution--10 great years as a guest starting in 2011 live in Paris https://t.co/ERItlV6cz6

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) April 22, 2021

Emile Doak Reviews G. Olmstead's Book

Could it be that the social cohesion, neighborliness, and interdependency for which Olmstead rightly pines are products of the same “cultural demeanors” that were skeptical of a “diverse local community”? https://t.co/WxBdhSNRtw

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 23, 2021

Good for the reviewer to call Olmstead out on her adherence to the SJW gospel and whether it is coherent.

Be Like Kerwick

Don't be like low-T Dreher who has to be critical of Kerwick in order to remain "respectable." "Macho display" a problem on the "right"? Not at all. Dreher thinks that "protests" and "legislation" are courses of action still available for Reds. If he lived in 1776, he'd still be dithering about what position to take on the war for American Independence.

NEW Dreher: “Owning the libs” is fine, I guess, but it’s not the same as accomplishing real change. I have zero interest in lib-owners who separate the gullible from their money and rage impotently (but profitably) while the Left consolidates victories. https://t.co/V3dbf9P0UW

— The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 23, 2021

Freedom!

Thrilled to announce FREEDOM, which explains how people across the ages maintain autonomy in the face of more powerful foes. Humans are unique in that ability, and were that not true, the powerful would always dominate. Thankfully, they don’t. Avail 5/18: https://t.co/eFN3dUiyZl pic.twitter.com/6ENV3VcAhM

— Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger) April 13, 2021

Related:

Today, I’m joined by Jack Donovan to talk about the roles of masculinity, individual responsibility, the heroic ideal, and why we as men look to the Gods and what we can learn from them.https://t.co/zQaWooR5Rr pic.twitter.com/KLZMUkUStS

— Ryan Michler (@ryanmichler) April 13, 2021

Everything revolves around taking care of one another and putting our #PeopleFirst pic.twitter.com/3Yfg4aVqa1

— 3rd Special Forces Group 🇺🇸 (@3rdSFGroup) April 16, 2021

Find your tribe.

Extended Kinship

It will align with a feminist "ethic of care" -- but does it deal with those moral questions and issues that lie outside a woman's moral psychology? No.

https://t.co/EygwwgIm3m

Extended kinship structures and small, tight-knit communities can teach us a lot about the Mystical Body of Christ. This is the story of my own very large, very small place.

— Punky Mantilla ☢️ (@PunkyMantilla) March 16, 2021

Myth of American Individualism

My print copy is all marked up and worn out, so I am glad that one of the very best small-c conservative books on the American Founding, Barry Shain's MYTH OF AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM, is finally out in a Kindle edition today: https://t.co/TRh77hyGVV

— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) February 9, 2021

FPR Discussion on January 21.

You won’t want to miss @PatrickDeneen, Bill Kauffman, Katherine Dalton, and Jeff Polet conversing about the prospects for localism in the post-Trump era. https://t.co/PoEPwL2EsW

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) January 11, 2021

Trying to Please Everyone Localist

This is fine as a start but it is silent on the specifics and thus could readily be endorsed by left communitarians and left anarchists.

Social media sucks our attention toward national politics, but @hanszeiger offers some thoughtful ways we can participate in local politics and strengthen our democracy. https://t.co/XOJJFWat2n pic.twitter.com/DoWTiR22jm

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) January 4, 2021

Find Your Tribe and Relocalize

Today’s liturgically-appropriate details from “Anno’s Italy” by Mitsumasa Anno (1979) pic.twitter.com/eWLbFqmpkd

— Pavlos Papadopoulos (@pleonidasp) December 28, 2020

Liberal Communitarian?

How can this be possible? It can be possible when one is trying to reason away exceptions for one's own people. Even George acknowledges that Sacks promoted the lie that is "Judeo-Christianity." Does Sacks concede that a love of one's own ethnos is not only valid but normative for Western European peoples?

“Rabbi Sacks wants us to see that we can avoid the errors of individualism and collectivism—and the trap of identity politics, which combines and feeds on the errors of both—if we correctly understand the nature of the human person” @McCormickProf @JRBooks https://t.co/XTUuZ0C1s3

— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) December 30, 2020

My review in the Jewish Review of Books of what turned out to be Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' last book *Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times*.https://t.co/K1r6H7Lxbf

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) December 30, 2020

The Institutions That Made George Bailey

Harry Scherer draws attention to the role institutions play in forming and supporting George Bailey in *It’s a Wonderful Life*: https://t.co/GjcFlv56x1 pic.twitter.com/gPoNHubCzq

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) December 29, 2020

Find and Build Your Tribe

“This is no true Democracy. Here is no solidarity such as existed in the ancient tribes and primaeval society, but only disintegration and a dust-heap” - Edward Carpenterhttps://t.co/73iKpd8qO1https://t.co/ajStwVRl1W pic.twitter.com/hD2ogr28bN

— Winter Oak (@WinterOakPress) November 30, 2020

Finding Common Ground?

We might be closer to finding common ground than we realize. We can know only through a conversation in search of our common hopes and fears. https://t.co/6D4gkHJFUE pic.twitter.com/3LtazVmJXs

— David Korten (@dkorten) November 12, 2020

David Korten relies on the writing of Paul Chappell. While families and communities are important goods for the individual, they are not sustained apart from norms about individual behavior, and it is here that the disagreement between Reds and Blues. What can Korten do about that? Nothing, except to repeat some tired liberal beliefs.

Our political discourse is hobbled by the linear "left-right" axis of affiliation. Blake Pagenkopf, author of "The Structure of Political Positions," joins Chuck on this episode of The Strong Towns Podcast to bring a new dimension into frame. https://t.co/UPPGlGyjLZ

— Strong Towns (@StrongTowns) November 10, 2020

Related:

“Conservative religious critiques of liberalism are not novel. They are not fascistic departures from the American heritage, or foreign arguments brought over with Catholic migrants. They are part of a longstanding American tradition.”https://t.co/waYFOHc82t

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) November 12, 2020

Life Lessons

Teach your children the importance of being rooted in a place with a tribe to their divine vocation. As collapse proceeds, circumstances will make this even more clear.

Staying put is underrated.

I was taught that places were fungible. It never sat right with me.

This is great thread h/t @quachelsey https://t.co/Bx59Kqj0Mx

— Full President Joe Norman (@normonics) November 12, 2020

Complete thread by Taran Ann Thieke

It looks good on paper, but they presume in their "community-building" that you share their culture and values.

Local, Bioregional and Global Outreach https://t.co/1b4sOpzJkH pic.twitter.com/Ivm30Qkpty

— Resilience.org (@buildresilience) November 7, 2020

Gaia Education and Resilience

Again, No Commons without a Community

Another interesting review of my book, again emphasising the key political issue of access to land.

More from me on this in due course! https://t.co/mjKG5W9Okr

— Chris Smaje (@csmaje) November 5, 2020

"Over generations, open theft of #common heritage became disguised as private property, hiding behind legal contracts and the cold fiction of money as wealth."

For more info, check out our "Reinventing the Commons" program here: https://t.co/kq08MhQspEhttps://t.co/aVxkVAUDZM

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) November 5, 2020

"For [Elinor] Ostrom, we are not customers, users, or dependents. We are each participants: co-authors in our own flourishing and that of those close to us."

Three cheers for #community power! @Shareable https://t.co/Y6MW6pl9R2

— Schumacher Center for a New Economics (@Center4NewEcon) November 3, 2020