The Postliberals depart from the rest of the New Right in crucial respects. While they share with the rest a univocal and reactionary social conservatism—and a willingness to use the government to shape morality in traditionalist directions—they are more serious about moving beyond neoliberal economics in ways that would help the working class.

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“More and more young, intellectually inclined, and politically heterodox thinkers are showing disillusionment with the contemporary faith in technocracy and personal autonomy. They see this combination as having contributed to the fundamentally alienating character of modern Western life. The chipper, distinctly liberal optimism of rationalist... See more

What Mangione ultimately believed in was an ideology of personal optimisation. This is what’s left after all politics have been exhausted, the 2010s left and the 2020s right. There’s still the relentless need to improve something, but it’s no longer directed outwards. As we’ve discovered, another world is not actually possible, but there are ways... See more