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

Dealing with Autism

Twenty-one years ago, when @stevesilberman broke the story of Silicon Valley’s autism epidemic, he saw it as a problem. Now he’s changed his mind and has published a book about understanding and accepting autism spectrum disorders#Autism #ActuallyAutistichttps://t.co/AlJ0Ceowkq

— Krzysztof Potempa (@BRAINCURES) August 28, 2021

Milbank's Understanding of Conservatism

To me though it is stumbling block for any conservative and Christian Postliberalism to continue to believe in capitalism (as opposed to the market). I continue to think that real conservatism, as Ruskin saw, requires a commitment to mutualist socialism in some guise.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 26, 2021

Hm

All of this https://t.co/uzxKjDB3Sf

— Andrew Kloster (@ARKloster) August 23, 2021

Milbank Is Correct Re: True Aristocracy

We need a more truly aristocratic aristocracy (a Platonic-Aristotelian one of honour and virtue not wealth) not a finally complete embourgoisement as prelude to a socialism never likely to come.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 3, 2021

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.

But the Usurers Are in Control

A Time fo Reconsidering the Catholic Prohibition of Usury
by John Buchmannhttps://t.co/0mzwvs3V2F

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) July 14, 2021

Maritain's Liberalism vs. "Illiberalism"

What does scholasticism have to say about politics today? Lee Trepanier considers in his latest review of Jacques Maritain’s “Scholasticism and Politics,” a @Liberty_Fund classic: https://t.co/TLyvroDwvh

— Law & Liberty (@LawLiberty) July 6, 2021

ICYMI, I enjoyed this conversation with Brandon McGinley at the Portsmouth Institute. Watch and let me know your thoughts on the discussion. https://t.co/cLBYUURxbL via @YouTube @brandonmcg

— Professor Pecknold (@ccpecknold) June 25, 2021

A Weak Idea of Political Participation

Just talk and "debagte."

Given this history, it is important for Catholics and other believers to take a leading role — as men and women of faith — in the debates and conversations that are shaping the direction and culture of our country.

— Abp. José H. Gomez (@ArchbishopGomez) June 25, 2021

ICYMI, I enjoyed this conversation with Brandon McGinley at the Portsmouth Institute. Watch and let me know your thoughts on the discussion. https://t.co/cLBYUURxbL via @YouTube @brandonmcg

— Professor Pecknold (@ccpecknold) June 25, 2021

Robert George's "Wisdom" on Friendship

2/ Friends love each other despite disagreements and honor each other's right to freedom of thought and speech. Never demand conformity to your own opinions as the price of friendship. Never submit to someone's demand for conformity to his or her opinions as friendship's price.

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 24, 2021

And so if a friend disagrees about murder being an injustice and even practices it, should one still be friends with that person?

5/ If you are an ideologue, a dogmatist, you will have trouble being friends with people with whom you disagree. If you don't have friends who disagree with you on important moral and political questions, you should ask yourself whether you've become an ideologue, a dogmatist.

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 24, 2021

Can one be a dogmatist about theft or murder?

8/ Fellow truth-seekers can be friends because they recognize their own fallibility and are willing to be challenged, as well as to challenge. They're eager to learn from each other. Unlike ideologues, they don't allow love of their own opinions to impede pursuit of truth.

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 24, 2021

A failure to distinguish between practical and speculative truth, even though in general NNLTists still emphasize the distinction between the speculative and practical intellectg. Apparently they don't understand the implications of their own theory. It is not enough to be a "truth-seeker" to have a real friend. Real friendship is based upon shared agreement on goods and the ordering of actions leading to those goods, because they know that such a unity is necessary for living together. Liberal academics don't have to live with their friends, and so they know nothing about what real friendship requires.

Would You Trust Them To Give You the Proper Guidance

for acting under the current political circumstances? I wouldn't. It's an advertisement for the "Gospel of Niceness."

Virtual Summer Conference
AS I HAVE LOVED YOU
June 16-18, 2021

We are excited to have such a stellar speaker lineup to discuss how we can love well! More specifically, how we can better love God, ourselves and our neighbor.

REGISTRATION IS FREE: https://t.co/Qox5fI56oo pic.twitter.com/OZaPcVNASj

— Portsmouth Institute (@Portsmouth_Inst) June 4, 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.

Divini Illius Magistri and RC Social Teaching Are Wrong on This Point

Peter Kwasniewski:

First, the encyclical asserts and defends throughout the fundamental, inviolable right of parents to educate their own children (31ff.) and of the Church to educate the whole of mankind, especially those who are already her children by grace (15ff.). This right belongs naturally to the parents and supernaturally to the Church, and only by parental or ecclesiastical permission to the State or its officials.

One can understand this as an attempt to respond to the state and its abuse of power but taken as an absolute, it is wrong. The community (or the tribe) also has a right to educate the young, especially the males, and while parents are the primary teachers, they are not the only teachers, and there is no "delegation" of the exercise of this right to others -- they are exercising their own responsibility towards the young. The customs or laws that order behavior in a community or tribe, especially behavior towards others, are not determined by the family alone, but by the community (or its representatives), and parents aren't the only one with the authority to admonish or correct the young if the young fail to observe these laws. (Whether other adults have the authority to punish children or if this is delegated is a question worthy of attention.)

If there is someone in the tribe who is unqualified to teach, then he should not be teaching, but this is true of parents as well, and even more so. To accept a theologoumenon from a pope as if it is a part of Divine Tradition is a mistake but ultramontanist Latins, despite their intellectual manuevering on the "limits of infallibility" and "different levels of authority" still suffer from a slavishly uncritical attachment to papal opinions.

Sebastian Junger on the Tension Between Individualism and Dependence

Bestselling author @sebastianjunger examines the tension between individualism and dependence that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. He joins @MattGallagher0 via livestream to share what he has learned. https://t.co/4HHMTNHnqO

— Town Hall Seattle (@THSEA) May 17, 2021

The Sort of Trust You Need in Your Tribe

A trust few will ever know.
A soldier running across an open street. The man running trusts the two men to his right explicitly.
The men on the right would rather die a thousand deaths than fail the man running to the left. #brotherhood #family #trust #military pic.twitter.com/BfbIUoYZQZ

— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) May 10, 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.

Taken Down... for Re-Editing?

In case you missed it, here’s the video of the panel with me and Dan Burns on “Catholics and the Political Common Good" at @UofDallas excellent conference on America, Liberalism, and Catholicism. Watch, and share! https://t.co/nSQ4X9cIUu via @YouTube

— Professor Pecknold (@ccpecknold) April 17, 2021

The Roman Pontiff Has No Competence on Politike

Statist direction of local communities is still statism.

Pope Francis says to counter the growth of populism around the world it’s necessary for politicians to propose initiatives that are rooted in local communities and their values.https://t.co/vZae65Z5ZN

— Crux (@Crux) April 16, 2021

VATICAN—@Pontifex condemns “paternalistic” populism in video message streamed yesterday to US Catholic organizations, promoting his book "Let Us Dream".

Thoughts on his alternative political proposal, "inclusive popularism". https://t.co/tqk2qJ3wlJ

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) April 16, 2021

"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