Post Liberalism

a trail run through MacIntyre and conservatism in our time of manifold crisis “I was born for this, and for this I have come into the cosmos: that I might testify to the truth; everyone who belongs to the truth hearkens to my voice.” Pilate says to him, “What is…

A response to Bias Magazine’s recent articles on postliberalism I was for a very brief period asked to contribute to Bias Magazine when its parent committee, the Institute for Christian Socialism, was first forming. …

Quarter-baked idea: It seems to me that it might be fruitful to try to marry post-liberalism with a modified Rawlsian contractarianism. This might solve a problem with Rawls’ project and a problem with the post-liberal project. As Rawls says at one point, “the idea is to derive satisfactory principles from…

Carta a Pedro, para que retorne ao caminho do meio Caro amigo Pedro, que ainda não parece ter entendido o verdadeiro sentido da luta popular revolucionária, que é o da emancipação humana de todas as condições que a oprimem enquanto existência e expressão, ora, deixe-me explicar: o empreendimento da colonização, o sonho integracionista do Estado-Nação, o engodo do modelo econômico…

From his comments on Romans 6:18. In a world in which freedom has taken on all kinds of historical and social baggage, we must remember that Paul’s concept of freedom is not that of autonomous self-direction but of deliverance from those enslaving powers that would prevent human beings from becoming…

(Part 2 of a series on Political Economy I am writing on this blog. See Part 1 here. I recommend reading the introduction and Part 1 of the series, the two pieces linked above, prior to reading this piece) Introduction A Brief Recap In our last post, we discussed the moral-political background of the…

Traducción libre del texto publicado por Giles Fraser en el portal Unherd, bajo el título “A post-liberal reading list”. Cae de cajón. ¿Por qué sucede que una filosofía tan alineada con el pensamiento de grandes mayorías tiene, a su vez, tantos problemas para ser aceptada y debatida dentro de la…