An Unexpected Turn

Latin integralists won't take this well:

So tell me again how @RafaeldeArizaga is wrong that this project is altogether opposed to Rome. https://t.co/OJen9X9PZe

— Pat Smith (@smithpatrick08) October 31, 2021

The “ideal” in Scripture is not world government. It is localism.

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— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) October 31, 2021

But God’s compromise is the state instead of a world of free tribes and clans.

World empire is, in Scripture, the nightmare that political theory and theology seeks to prevent.

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— Yoram Hazony (@yhazony) October 31, 2021

Is there more substance to Hazony than I had previously thought? Is his book worth getting now? Is he not controlled op as suspected? Insofar as he is opposed to ethnonationalism and still advocates for a form of identity that is based on culture or creed alone, his understanding of politike remains problematic.

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

Milbank the Imperialist

I don’t believe in the nation state. I think it’s too liberal and Whig. Individualism writ large. ‘Imperium’ integrating different cultures round a more universal one is inherently more communitarian. Britain has been such an imperium for hundreds of years.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 13, 2021

When You See Things from the Narrow Perspective of RC Social Teaching

Solidarity and subsidiarity: https://t.co/zXeES8mbuG

— Tradistae (@tradistae) June 25, 2021

A Consequence of the Fear of Death and Sin

The more history of the nation state & of empire that I read the less convinced I am that there was ever really a nation state as we commonly understand it. The vast majority of nation states are themselves imperial amalgamations - Empire is the predominant history of mankind

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) July 3, 2021

Can't agree with the rest of his reflections:

Paradoxically it is imperialism in the sense of extending rule across different peoples and administrating a multiplicity that gives us a genuine possibility of multiculturalism and peaceful diversity

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) July 3, 2021

To complicate matters one has had especially in the modern period imperial nationalisms which are particularly brutal - but violence seems to accompany all formulations of empire - it’s just that Empire does also engender peace.

— Phillip Blond (@Phillip_Blond) July 3, 2021

Feminism Cannot Be Salvaged

Some personal news:@politybooks has agreed to publish my first book (probably next year, assuming I get my skates on and write it). Working title is ‘Feminism Against Progress’. Am very chuffed indeed

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) June 30, 2021

Can a State Be Christian?

Can a state be feminist and Christian?

Our Christian roots provide and have always provided the cultural foundation in the EU integration. Europe needs to preserve its Christian identity. This is not a question of party politics. It is about the quality of our life and policy making. @MgrMRouge @jpbalkenende https://t.co/pIai7EVpQg pic.twitter.com/Ov7PwyZ36x

— Katalin Novák (@KatalinNovakMP) June 7, 2021

Should He Still Be a Role Model?

Evangelization through friendship is a start; but Christianity must have an answer to the state. (And that requires a proper response to feminism, not "Catholic feminism" of the John Paul II type or of anyone else.

“Looking back at my own life, the most effective Christian apostolates I have been involved in have been informal events building real friendships with neighbors, events focused on community, faith and scholarship.” https://t.co/wP8AuIjk1C

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) March 30, 2021

Conservatism

"[Söderbaum] makes a case for nationalism as non-conservative, with its overemphasis on the nation, at the expense of other communities which are of equal—if not greater—importance, such as the family and the Church." - Br. Augustine Wärnberg https://t.co/HDI6b50t4J @ubookman pic.twitter.com/zkfMtvlSuU

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) March 29, 2021

MacIntyre on Protests

This a modified excerpt from After Virtue, but since it was published with MacIntyre's position, one can assume that MacIntyre hasn't repudiated his position on natural rights.

The Fractured Metaphysics of Protests
by Alasdair MacIntyrehttps://t.co/zvd4hlo05Z

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) January 20, 2021

Localism and Federalism

Solutions that haven't been tried, because... inertia. Upholding the state? Not the proper job of a bishop.

Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, criticizing his country's politicians over their failure to form a new government as Lebanon veers closer to collapse, asked, "Don't you fear God?" https://t.co/Xu63iLoYLc

— Pontifical Oriental Institute (@theorientale) January 27, 2021

Salazar's Portugal

https://t.co/DfyCJER5jb

If ‘integration from within’ is really possible, then what went wrong in Portugal?

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) January 22, 2021

Is Home Rule Possible?

I've talked about this. As cities are corporate entities of the State legal issues can arise, but only so far as the State adheres to its own constitution. Remember, each State has a BOR and some are more detailed than the US BOR. https://t.co/y6Qtoxn3lb

— Brion McClanahan (@BrionMcClanahan) January 22, 2021

An Ignorant Take on A Hidden Life

This is what I expected from the left or leftist Christians to say about A Hidden Life, applying the Nutzees to Trump. They fail to understand that the true enemy of the people and of God is the oligarchy and the Deep State, and that erroneous "nationalism" is a product of the state. The cultural revolutionaries and (D)s have their own version of nationalism that they would use to make other submit to the oligarchs. But you can't fix ideological blindness, especially one posing as "Christianity."

A Hidden Life, Patriotism, and a Rightly Ordered Love for America by K. B. Hoyle

Reno Responds to Waldstein

Integralism Practical, Not Theoretical
by: R.R. Reno

Jesus is Lord, and he reigns not just over “spiritual” matters but over all of life. But we need to make sure that theories of integralism do not get in the way of the Christian politics our age needs.https://t.co/VoufB82dEW

— Theopolis Institute (@_Theopolis) January 14, 2021

In theory, a strong nation-state would be a bulwark against globalism but what if the nation-state has already been captured by globalists and internationalists? What is one to do then? What does Reno advocate?

By Denying Legitimate Ethnonationalism, They Play Into the Hands of Statists

Dubium: Is Integralism Essentially Bound Up with Racism, Nationalism, and Totalitarianism? https://t.co/9MobVt3CXJ

— The Josias (@josias_rex) January 3, 2021

Will This Lead to Reform?

Based on hundreds of interviews, documents and images, a new detailed model of the Breonna Taylor shooting paints the Louisville PD in a really bad light.

WATCH HERE: https://t.co/4MVWkdMCfk pic.twitter.com/iD4ggRCPa6

— Tactical-Life.com (@TacticalLife1) December 29, 2020

Anarchism as a Response to the State and Its Oligarchy

"For the minority who use the structures of the current system to dispossess and exploit the majority, complete freedom is indeed to be feared – as a threat to their own privileged status." @WinterOakPress https://t.co/nAlt6mXIGJ

— frackfree_eu (@frackfree_eu) December 17, 2020

Restorative Justice

I am not opposed to what it implies (rehabilitation/rehabilitation/re-education) though the name itself is misleading. But restorative justice cannot be exercised in a state that is by its very nature dysfunctional and opposed to true human formation. "Restorative justice" is possible only at a small scale, in true communities.

On the justice system of small tribe in PNG. Hyper local, hyper homogenous, their approach is the opposite of modern Western systems. Human scaled law? https://t.co/leMcwAVzjF

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) December 16, 2020

The Tyranny That is the Nation-State

"(...) it is crucial to remember that nation-states were the first form of centralised authority imposed on free human communities and that the nation-state is the tool with which the exploiting class has long kept us in line." https://t.co/GZjvUZT0kK

— frackfree_eu (@frackfree_eu) December 14, 2020

Dismantling Tyranny by @WinterOakPress

The nation-state, with its fake “democracy” its “legitimate authority”, its controlled media, its academic institutions, its police & its monopoly on violence, is the very real and immediate means of oppression.https://t.co/KOJ9e8Qcuw pic.twitter.com/KCZvqO1vRa

— 'In Truth We Trust' (@SikhForTruth) December 14, 2020