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Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

As James Davison Hunter puts it in his brilliant analysis The Death of Character, “There have never been ‘generic’ values.”13 Virtues are thick realities tethered to particular communities governed by a particular Story.

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

Scott D. Allen and Darrow L. Miller Published by the Disciple Nations Alliance

Stan Guthrie • A Toxic New Religion: Understanding the Postmodern, Neo-Marxist Faith that Seeks to Destroy the Judeo-Christian Culture of the West

There’s an old joke that you can tell what kind of conservative a person is by what year they want to go back to. I’d say the decline of a shared morality happened over the past 60 years with the rise of hyper-individualism and moral relativism. MacIntyre, by contrast, argued that the loss of moral coherence was baked into the Enlightenment from it... See more

Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?

Purpose, hope and dignity are some of the principles that define a public philosophy of postliberalism.

Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal

I adopt Hunter’s “faithfully present within” culture approach, augmented by Andy Crouch’s insight that Christians are called to be creators and cultivators of the good, true, and beautiful. Alternative accounts of cultural apologetics could be developed that explicitly endorse one or another of Niebuhr’s possible positions on Christ and culture.

Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics

As Real America breaks down the ossified libertarianism of Free America, Just America assaults the complacent meritocracy of Smart America. It does the hard, essential thing that the other three narratives avoid, that white Americans have avoided throughout our history. It forces us to see the straight line that runs from slavery and segregation to

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

This form of anonymous, procedural power, which I’ve characterised elsewhere as “swarmism”, has emerged as a central feature of post-liberal governance. To supporters, it’s innocuous: just well-designed institutions functioning as they should.

[“deep state” (Bannon) “the Cathedral” (Curtis Yarvin)]

Why the Right loves a Great Man Mary Harrington 7.1... See more

2024 A+ Zettels

Since education is a formative project, aimed at the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, then the teacher is a steward of transcendence who needs not only to know the Good but also to teach from that conviction. The teacher of virtue will not apologize for seeking to apprentice students to the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. But she will also run