“Get as rich as you can, and let people do whatever they desire as long as there is consent.” — Augustine, City of God 2.20 on the moral and religious collapse of Rome
New WSJ poll: Traditional values seem to be in decline in America.
In the full survey, one value beats everything else, including self-fulfillment, tolerance, and community. It’s hard work.
“Benedict famously observes that state power has been usurped by market power, disorienting our social and civic life. This disorientation has occurred precisely because our ‘structures, institutions, culture and ethos’ have excluded God.” open.substack.com/pub/postlibera…
The first posting of “The Postliberal Order” is up! “A Good that is Common,” by @PatrickDeneen. Mere freedom is not enough - a common good should and must be substantively supported for and made available to ordinary people.
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“Whether we have the sobriety to avoid what is becoming the deafening drums of war…hinges on whether there is enough of a remnant of the Augustinian civilization that Voegelin once believed was sufficient to balance our gnostic illusions.” — PJD postliberalorder.substack.com/p/russia-ameri…
🎙@PatrickDeneen, @ccpecknold, and @gjpappin spend an hour discussing the implications of a Leonine, Augustinian, and American Pope for the Church, America, and the World.
Listen today, only in @PostlibOrder ⬇️
Wokism will not be defeated through economic means because it is a political, cultural, and religious battle.
Read @FeserEdward explain why in @PostlibOrder!
"Our alternative draws on ancient wisdom and teachings of the classical and Christian eras, wisdom that has either been explicitly rejected by liberalism’s architects or neutered by liberal appropriation."
”Why They Hate Us,“ the latest by @PatrickDeneen.
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