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

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.

China on the Rise?

They want to fight because they think they’ll win.

“Combat was formerly seen as a threat to the Party’s hold on power. China’s military was not in a position to win…Now it is perceived as a way to strengthen the CCP’s position.” https://t.co/UWonHwJLmi

— Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) October 20, 2021

Han Pride

Three astronauts, including a woman, will enter the China Space Station to perform a six-month mission in space. pic.twitter.com/CuutW8YtFj

— 海岸猎人32（SFAC） (@shuixiang32) October 15, 2021

“China Just Announced That It's Sending the First Humans to Mars” https://t.co/KOAzGud1Qr

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 13, 2021

Tool of the Statists and the Revolutionaries

Bestselling author and journalist Sebastian Junger discusses attacks on American democracy, and the fight to protect a free country from enemies both foreign and domestic https://t.co/jVcvAPQOFc pic.twitter.com/Vy7Spk0OP9

— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) July 4, 2021

The Unofficial National Anthem

And never to be forgotten, "Hail Columbia" the Unofficial National Anthem of The USA from 1789-1931.https://t.co/SAStxQphS1

— CulturalHusbandry (@APhilosophae) July 4, 2021

What was the political party affiliation of the composer of the lyrics, Joseph Hopkinson?

Would Southrons consider "Dixie" to be the "national anthem" of the CSA? Or would they prefer "God Save the South" instead? If secesssion had succeeded, would the region still want to be known as the "South" in contradistinction to the "North"? Or would they have prefered something like Dixie instead?

A Revival of Greek Identity?

I can't deny, it makes me emotional seeing the revival of Greek identity in Southern Italy after centuries of forced Latinisation.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of them same Syria and Lebanon in the not very distant future after more than a century of forced Arabisation. pic.twitter.com/flAbjYr06l

— Paul Antonopoulos 🇬🇷🇨🇾 (@oulosP) June 26, 2021

An Interesting Episode of The General Eclectic?

I enjoyed filling in for @roddreher on "The General Eclectic" last week.

A great discussion on:

▪️Post-liberal conservatism
▪️Localism vs nationalism
▪️The limits of religious liberty

with shoutouts to @SohrabAhmari, @RyanTAnd, @PatrickDeneen, @DouthatNYT, and more⬇️ https://t.co/o19oqLKoKK

— Emile Doak (@EADoak) June 21, 2021

Not Wrong

As what one thinks of the monolithic French identity is the product of centuries-old nationalization by a few, and even know distinct identities and cultures still exist within France. But the source of this makes it suspect. Would he apply this to the modern state of Israel?

You can’t define France by its ethnicity, by its religion or by its geography. https://t.co/CuO2tSToeh

— Gérard Araud (@GerardAraud) May 29, 2021

A Book on Chinese Propaganda About World War II

World War II is bubbling up in Chinese popular culture — and the understanding of the War among the Chinese, particularly with regard to Imperial Japan, is changing along with it. https://t.co/mhP2f97ogD

— Law & Liberty (@LawLiberty) May 27, 2021

"It's a Bus"

Praise from a self-loathing white Sinophile? Maybe.

This is incredible!
China 🇨🇳 is testing it’s new autonomous electric train that does not need traditional tracks. It runs on a virtual track. Can go everywhere.

pic.twitter.com/56505GeK1U

— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) May 19, 2021

This is "Conservatism"

A wonderfully intelligent and challenging book that I relished even when I disagreed.https://t.co/cOv7qat139

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) May 19, 2021

When Do the Cultural Marxists Go to China?

PLA’s recruitment video. https://t.co/9xPS2T9fF2 pic.twitter.com/LLHQwxLhIF

— Manju Baturu (@Xongkuro) May 18, 2021

Chinese Nationalism Is Alive and Well

And so is the Chinese love for CGI-movies...

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on Mars, leaving a Chinese footprint on the planet for the first time https://t.co/K7IJGy38Uv pic.twitter.com/67YtwI6r2K

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 15, 2021

Shameful

Christians should not be mouthpieces for Empire-endorsed Ukrainian nationalism that serves to benefit oligarchs.

With Russia building up its troops in the border with Ukraine, Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the current head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, is warning the conflict is not only a threat for the region, but for the world.https://t.co/q5wGnmEILl

— Crux (@Crux) April 23, 2021

This Is Ukrainian Nationalism

Not Christianity.

“On behalf of the Ukrainian people, I ask you to pray for peace in Ukraine, and for the involvement of the international community to resolve the conflict and to prevent a worldwide blaze exploding from this fuse.”https://t.co/Z5NoiuLTyo

— Hannah Brockhaus (@HannahBrockhaus) April 20, 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

This Is Chinese Han Nationalism

A Chinese star shows up with her arm decorated with cotton to support #XinjiangCotton. She is one of the over 50 Chinese celebrities standing firmly behind Xinjiang cotton. https://t.co/ThVaMTN0y5 pic.twitter.com/h9sT6mcEuY

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 26, 2021

Union?

Overrated. This just serves the interests of the oligarchs and the statists. Let there be division and separation. A revived Christianity cannot support the state; it would be an abomination to the Lord.

Prof Joshua Mitchell of Georgetown just said in a speech that the cult of social justice/identity politics is the greatest threat to the American nation since the Civil War, and only a revived Christianity can save us from tearing ourself apart.

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 20, 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