Postliberalism sounds an awful lot like fascism.
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Postliberalism sounds an awful lot like fascism.
No mention of MacIntyre's ETHICS IN THE CONFLICTS OF MODERNITY in this COMPACT article on MacIntyre's relationship to postliberalism, which is odd to me because he basically sketches out his view of politics in there.
www.compactmag.com/article/post...
www.compactmag.com/article/post...
Postliberalism’s Reluctant Godfather
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) had all the signs of a restless mind. Few philosophers changed their views as much as he did.
www.compactmag.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
No mention of MacIntyre's ETHICS IN THE CONFLICTS OF MODERNITY in this COMPACT article on MacIntyre's relationship to postliberalism, which is odd to me because he basically sketches out his view of politics in there.
www.compactmag.com/article/post...
www.compactmag.com/article/post...
Do you follow OP? Because I can assure you that's what was meant.
Also, postliberalism is a specific conservative ideology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlib...
Also, postliberalism is a specific conservative ideology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlib...
Postliberalism - Wikipedia
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October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Do you follow OP? Because I can assure you that's what was meant.
Also, postliberalism is a specific conservative ideology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlib...
Also, postliberalism is a specific conservative ideology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlib...
Postliberalism either embraces confessional enclosure or disowns its own logic because its grammar entails bounded norms. Attempts to soften those commitments trade clarity for incoherence.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Postliberalism either embraces confessional enclosure or disowns its own logic because its grammar entails bounded norms. Attempts to soften those commitments trade clarity for incoherence.
Also, I stopped checking in on Susannah Roberts after I left Twitter, but I’ll need to see a massive mea culpa where she disowns postliberalism. She was still peddling a fusion of religion and politics just a few years ago, so I don’t buy this narrative.
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Also, I stopped checking in on Susannah Roberts after I left Twitter, but I’ll need to see a massive mea culpa where she disowns postliberalism. She was still peddling a fusion of religion and politics just a few years ago, so I don’t buy this narrative.
Fascinating that the Francoist active duty officer is unable to recognize the degree to which "mission command" relies on the officer as autonomous individual with something very much like rights, and what postliberalism might mean for him in practice.
chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Fascinating that the Francoist active duty officer is unable to recognize the degree to which "mission command" relies on the officer as autonomous individual with something very much like rights, and what postliberalism might mean for him in practice.
Already in 2022, David argued that, in fixing norms in ecclesial rule and communal “plausibility structures,” postliberalism forecloses prereflective openness and downgrades unrestricted historical criticism, thereby collapsing the kerygma-history dialectic into confessionalism.
There’s no such thing as liberal postliberalism. There is postliberalism that fully accepts its consequences and postliberalism that tries to feign ignorance about its implications.
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Already in 2022, David argued that, in fixing norms in ecclesial rule and communal “plausibility structures,” postliberalism forecloses prereflective openness and downgrades unrestricted historical criticism, thereby collapsing the kerygma-history dialectic into confessionalism.
The thing about that opinion piece from War on the Rocks is that I actually agree with it that the military needs to move past the Huntingtonian model towards being an explicitly ideological force. But I think the ideology should be liberal democratic cosmopolitanism instead of postliberalism.
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The thing about that opinion piece from War on the Rocks is that I actually agree with it that the military needs to move past the Huntingtonian model towards being an explicitly ideological force. But I think the ideology should be liberal democratic cosmopolitanism instead of postliberalism.
That would be why the other guy who responded to suggested you were throwing in with the fash, because postliberalism is what you call Viktor Orban in Hungary (just on the chance you blocked them).
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
That would be why the other guy who responded to suggested you were throwing in with the fash, because postliberalism is what you call Viktor Orban in Hungary (just on the chance you blocked them).
‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
‘Postliberalism offers no account of change nor of the future and that is why it with its populist politics of faith, family and flag is ultimately a dead end.’
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Against Post-Liberalism by @pjthinker.bsky.social is out today in the UK!
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
fundamentally the only postliberal thinker who still holds up well is Alastair MacIntyre, primarily because he indicts the systems of racism among others at odds with his postliberalism (CLR James references in Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity are not a mistake.)
it's sort of interesting to remember that at one point Adrian proposed a cosmopolitan Empire (led by America) under our Lady of Guadalupe. Guess that wasn't close enough to power for these annoying twats
checking on the integralists of 2019-2020
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
fundamentally the only postliberal thinker who still holds up well is Alastair MacIntyre, primarily because he indicts the systems of racism among others at odds with his postliberalism (CLR James references in Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity are not a mistake.)
"Postliberalism and the romantic lie" by Lyle Enright www.christiancentury.org/features/pos...
ht @poetryforsupper.bsky.social
ht @poetryforsupper.bsky.social
The scandal of J.D. Vance and René Girard
What happens when mimetic theory meant to unmask violence becomes a tool of political power?
www.christiancentury.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Postliberalism and the romantic lie" by Lyle Enright www.christiancentury.org/features/pos...
ht @poetryforsupper.bsky.social
ht @poetryforsupper.bsky.social
I think that before folks conclude that theological postliberalism leads to Orbanism, they may need to take into account postliberal theologians who aren’t straight white dudes (these people exist).
September 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I think that before folks conclude that theological postliberalism leads to Orbanism, they may need to take into account postliberal theologians who aren’t straight white dudes (these people exist).
I feel about theological postliberalism what I feel about radical orthodoxy: it emerges from a specific moment and it curdles if/when it casts itself as *the* solution rather than as one position among many.
I'd be much harsher on postliberalism tho. If context matters... today is a context.
I'd be much harsher on postliberalism tho. If context matters... today is a context.
September 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I feel about theological postliberalism what I feel about radical orthodoxy: it emerges from a specific moment and it curdles if/when it casts itself as *the* solution rather than as one position among many.
I'd be much harsher on postliberalism tho. If context matters... today is a context.
I'd be much harsher on postliberalism tho. If context matters... today is a context.
Postliberalism was fundamentally when you post a lot about liberalism.
September 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Postliberalism was fundamentally when you post a lot about liberalism.
Bored. Ask me anything about postliberalism, integralism, or JD Vance.
September 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Bored. Ask me anything about postliberalism, integralism, or JD Vance.
Det intressanta är att Tiden o Payam Moulas postliberalism delar exakt samma syn på förfallet, och att vägen framåt är att basera en marknadsekonomi på samhällsgemenskap genom kyrka, familj + folkhem.
Det är en liberal o kulturmarxistisk nihilism som atomiserat samhället genom rasera traditionen.
Det är en liberal o kulturmarxistisk nihilism som atomiserat samhället genom rasera traditionen.
September 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Det intressanta är att Tiden o Payam Moulas postliberalism delar exakt samma syn på förfallet, och att vägen framåt är att basera en marknadsekonomi på samhällsgemenskap genom kyrka, familj + folkhem.
Det är en liberal o kulturmarxistisk nihilism som atomiserat samhället genom rasera traditionen.
Det är en liberal o kulturmarxistisk nihilism som atomiserat samhället genom rasera traditionen.
that's what i keep saying but i think the fact that Vance basically went from "Hillbilly Elegy" to MAGA champion has people convinced he doesn't actually hold to postliberalism
Anyone who’s thrown his lot in with Dreher as thoroughly as Vance has is not faking it. He’s a true believer.
September 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
that's what i keep saying but i think the fact that Vance basically went from "Hillbilly Elegy" to MAGA champion has people convinced he doesn't actually hold to postliberalism
I think what didn't help is that postliberalism is now also a Protestant project, and the protestant Christian Nationalists have their own (bad) ideas about how to turn American liberty into a Christian theocracy.
September 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I think what didn't help is that postliberalism is now also a Protestant project, and the protestant Christian Nationalists have their own (bad) ideas about how to turn American liberty into a Christian theocracy.
Yes! IIRC Dreher has mentioned it, but his entire story of conversion is essentially on THE LAMP (one of the big outlets of Catholic postliberalism in the 2020s):
thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-j...
thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-j...
September 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Yes! IIRC Dreher has mentioned it, but his entire story of conversion is essentially on THE LAMP (one of the big outlets of Catholic postliberalism in the 2020s):
thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-j...
thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-j...
Why postliberalism instead of reactionary, fascist, etc? What is the term getting at beyond chronology?
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Why postliberalism instead of reactionary, fascist, etc? What is the term getting at beyond chronology?
My long-awaited article, "What Has New Haven to Do with Hungary? On Theological and Political Postliberalism" is finally out in the new issue of the Journal of Religion.
If you'd like a copy of the article, please DM or email me.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
If you'd like a copy of the article, please DM or email me.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
What Has New Haven to Do with Hungary? On Theological and Political Postliberalism* | The Journal of Religion: Vol 105, No 4
Abstract In recent years, a growing number of political theorists and religious writers and activists—including Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, Rod Dreher, R. R. Reno, and Adrian Vermeule—have aligned ...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My long-awaited article, "What Has New Haven to Do with Hungary? On Theological and Political Postliberalism" is finally out in the new issue of the Journal of Religion.
If you'd like a copy of the article, please DM or email me.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
If you'd like a copy of the article, please DM or email me.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
4/ A shameless plug: I would add to McCarraher’s list of thinkers whom Christian Left postliberals ought to consult the name of Emmanuel Mounier who mobilised his Catholicism in many of the ways McCarraher suggests a Christian Left postliberalism could go.
November 29, 2024 at 9:05 PM
4/ A shameless plug: I would add to McCarraher’s list of thinkers whom Christian Left postliberals ought to consult the name of Emmanuel Mounier who mobilised his Catholicism in many of the ways McCarraher suggests a Christian Left postliberalism could go.
Här kommer nästa tråd om vad jag tyckte om Tidens nummer om postliberalism. Förra tråden handlade om vad jag tyckte var bra (samt en slags sammanfattning av huvuddragen) och den här tråden kommer att handla om vad jag tyckte var dåligt. Läs den andra först för sammanhang. Nu kör vi:
Så långt det jag tyckte var bra i numret. I nästa tråd kommer det jag tyckte var dåligt. Det här har blivit för långt redan.
(Passar på att be om ursäkt för att det tog tid att skriva, det har varit en del att göra på jobbet osv)
(Passar på att be om ursäkt för att det tog tid att skriva, det har varit en del att göra på jobbet osv)
February 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Här kommer nästa tråd om vad jag tyckte om Tidens nummer om postliberalism. Förra tråden handlade om vad jag tyckte var bra (samt en slags sammanfattning av huvuddragen) och den här tråden kommer att handla om vad jag tyckte var dåligt. Läs den andra först för sammanhang. Nu kör vi:
Postliberalism är på modet, både inom Socialdemokratin och bland folk som oroar sig över bristande gemenskap (läs @joelhalldorf.bsky.social). Det är också en av de starkaste ideologierna bakom Trump. Jag skrev lite om vad de postliberala tänkarna faktiskt tycker. www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...
Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: Ideologerna kring Trump vill ha en reaktionär revolution
Den flagranta inkompetensen hos Trumpadministrationen riskerar att dölja ideologin.
www.dn.se
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Postliberalism är på modet, både inom Socialdemokratin och bland folk som oroar sig över bristande gemenskap (läs @joelhalldorf.bsky.social). Det är också en av de starkaste ideologierna bakom Trump. Jag skrev lite om vad de postliberala tänkarna faktiskt tycker. www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...