Someone Didn't Learn from MacIntyre Properly

MacIntyre may have denounced the nation-state but he also denounces its regime, which Adam DeVille fails to understand, instead promoting the fiction that we live in a "democracy":

White Christian nationalism motivates the anti-democratic, authoritarian, and violent impulses on display in our current political moment. The future of American democracy, Gorski and Perry argue, will depend on whether a broad spectrum of Americans―stretching from democratic socialists to classical liberals―can unite in a popular front to combat the threat to liberal democracy posed by white Christian nationalism.

Just because you're an academic doesn't mean you have political wisdom.

The Utter Fatuousness of All Nationalisms

Except: CDK's Opinion on Human Dignity Wasn't the Minority One

The great truth about human beings that human beings find hardest to grasp and hold onto is that every human being is the bearer of profound, inherent, and equal dignity. None of us is superior or inferior in fundamental worth or value to others. All are made in the image of God.

— Robert P. George🇻🇦🇺🇸🪕 (@McCormickProf) January 2, 2022

There are, of course, many respects in which human beings are unequal: strength, agility, beauty, intelligence, charm, and on and on. And yet, in basic worth, in basic rights, in what truly and ultimately matters, there are no superiors or inferiors: "all men are created equal."

— Robert P. George🇻🇦🇺🇸🪕 (@McCormickProf) January 2, 2022

The Theotokos is greater than all other human beings. Full stop.

The Pope's Political Priorities

Pope Francis has lamented a global “retreat from democracy” in a speech in Athens, the cradle of Western civilization. #PopeinGreece https://t.co/XUO1v13RpA

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) December 4, 2021

From a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis decried European indifference to the plight of migrants in the Mediterranean as a "shipwreck of civilization.” https://t.co/UqFlBtGbYh

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) December 5, 2021

Pope Francis spent time in prayer today with migrants on the island of Cyprus, which currently receives more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in the European Union. #PopeinCyprus https://t.co/UCXzVR5JGa

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) December 3, 2021

Pope Francis spent time in prayer with migrants on the island of Cyprus, which currently receives more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in the EU. The Vatican announced that it had helped to transfer 12 refugees from Cyprus to Italy. #PopeinCyprus 📷 Vatican Media pic.twitter.com/4Bv12BYX6x

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) December 3, 2021

"Liberalism"

It seems to me that observers of American society would do well to stop saying "liberalism" and start saying instead "the ideology of the professional class".https://t.co/02WDsfqc85

— Darel E. Paul (@darelmass) September 21, 2021

The ideology of the oligarchy's useful idiots living in mass population centers.

When NGOs...

that are dedicated to some form of localism or resiliency go woke or become infested with SJWs, it's a sign that they're no longer effective in fulfilling their mission and/or they've become co-opted by the oligarchs.

Today we’re launching the Post Growth Fellowship, a 12-month content collaboration with 25 #postgrowth activists, researchers & entrepreneurs, seeking to decolonize post-growth ideas, information & inspiration: https://t.co/k1prPxvsiH #degrowth #decolonization #sufficiency #plsRT pic.twitter.com/YDsiEOmrG4

— Post Growth Institute #BlackLivesMatter (@postgrowth) September 14, 2021

Boycott the Enemy

Stop supporting products that hate their fandoms.

Really don’t care about her outfit.

Watching it after this would be a simp move for corporations that think you will buy anything. https://t.co/DOssCvXTZW

— Grummz (@Grummz) August 27, 2021

Power in a Neoliberal Age

Locating Power in a Neoliberal Age https://t.co/BiSQI4Wln3 pic.twitter.com/V5bBBRFCLQ

— Resilience.org (@buildresilience) August 30, 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.

Liberals Continue Being Useful Idiots for the Oligarchs

Freedom’s Law: A Primer on Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism https://t.co/mYXKFPxgkT

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) August 23, 2021

George Fitzhugh

George Fitzhugh *hated* the Enlightenment and what he called 'Free Society'. Highly critical of the Reformation, John Locke, etc. He wanted to go back to what it was like in England before at least the English Civil War as a form of government. Very illiberal writer. pic.twitter.com/uEDpD4id4O

— Carolina Cavalier ♱⚜ (@carolinaplanter) August 22, 2021

Mary Harrington Still at Work

What we know today as ‘feminism’ can also be read as a campaign for women to enter the market, under industrial modernity, on the same terms as men. Me at @AmericanAffrs on why this approach to women’s interests, though once justified, is now failing us https://t.co/P7tsa9rqvI

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) August 20, 2021

A Review of Strong Towns

"Our places have not been built for humans, but the mythical homo oeconomicus." - @MattRobare reviews "Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity" by @clmarohn for @ubookman https://t.co/9puz1hyso1 pic.twitter.com/Uw82GvnQau

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 21, 2021

What if Modern Democratic Ideology Was Always a Mask Though?

A tool of the oligarchs?

A culture that has decayed into the protection and production of oligarchs produces and protects oligarchs - this risks the being fundamental expression of modern democratic ideology https://t.co/n4Xz7DbZIN

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) August 19, 2021

Jung Was Right Sometimes

"The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding & the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes & vice versa.”
C.Jung pic.twitter.com/ZscKFbbJJu

— Branko Obradović #ResistTheGreatReset (@BeingBranKOd) August 8, 2021

Joe Norman on Libertarianism and Localism

Non-naive Libertarianism Converges to Localism by @normonics

Interesting take. Localism seems the only safeguard against systemic risks. https://t.co/QFgyh4x2Ax

— Pedro Montuenga Sfeir (@pmontu33) August 4, 2021

with Jack Murphy:

Joe Norman - JML #066 https://t.co/kiACX3ck6y via @YouTube

— Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️ (@jackmurphylive) August 4, 2021

LIVE NOW! JML #066 with @normonics !! https://t.co/XPRpiAz1zt

— Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️ (@jackmurphylive) August 4, 2021

Orthodox "Leadership" in America

Here's just some of what's on tap at the 5th Annual National Orthodox Advanced Leadership Conference! https://t.co/rvuB79mK4J pic.twitter.com/7AET2VPrxh

— St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (@stvlads) August 5, 2021

Tom Gallagher's Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

The most provocative idea in Tom Gallagher's biography of Salazar is not that we should adopt some version of corporatism today but that **we already have**. https://t.co/mzxP6G2DzA pic.twitter.com/Lgjt5C8FFF

— Helen Andrews (@herandrews) August 4, 2021

Since we’re discussing Salazar for some reason, I highly recommend Tom Gallagher’s balanced biography.

Review by @herandrews here: https://t.co/hzsgf7kRhn

— PEG (@pegobry) August 4, 2021

Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

Robert George on Academic Freedom

What is academic freedom? Should we value and honor it? If so, why?

I take up these and related questions as Cherise's guest on "Well Said."
https://t.co/4s00YrJPkH

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 30, 2021

"Be Yourself" as Corporation Brand Messaging

There was a time when you didn’t play by the rules. Self expression was all you knew. Go back to that. #BeWhoYouAre

- #NicoBondi pic.twitter.com/UVzYyV2EIp

— Oakley (@oakley) July 30, 2021

Whom Does the Vatican Serve?

As Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin put it, “means transforming instruments of hatred into instruments of peace... It means rejecting the increasing proliferation of arms & accepting the promotion of the common good & the alleviation of poverty.”https://t.co/NjFopgUCw8

— Crisis Magazine (@CrisisMag) July 29, 2021