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Political Philosophy

A collection of 47 issues

Arthur Brooks Serves Up a Wickedly-Delightful Anti-Statist Slant

Echo de Tocqueville and Nisbet's emphasis on the importance of local associations. The ruling class doesn't want us to get along. More strife means more intervention. More intervention means more opportunity for them to exercise power and rape our country's resources. (Blog Post)

The Superstition of Politicians

A progressive politician with a theory is like a peasant woman at her weekday Mass. Both are using tools to access grace. The difference is, the peasant woman isn’t superstitious. (Essay)

The Conservative Civil War is Disconcerting

But they still have a common and enormous enemy that ain't goin' away soon. That should keep 'em together for awhile

The Somalis are Raping the Norwegians

And the Norwegians say, "Geef MEE som moor"

Preparing for Catholicism's Preeminent Role in the West after Democracy Collapses?

Kevin Vallier's analysis of Patrick Deneen's newfound Statism in this podcast episode is really interesting. Deneen wrote Why Liberalism Failed. It got a lot of press, especially after Obama included it on his 2018 reading list. Obama liked his insights but disagreed with Deneen's

Learn to Love Your Region

It might be the only effective answer to Leviathan . . . and it arguably saves lives Socialist? Liberal? Conservative? Libertarian? Anarchist? I'm none of those things. I'm a Subsidiarist. I believe in the Catholic bedrock of political philosophy, which holds the smallest units of government ought to handle

Zuby's Twitter Thread: 20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic'

The pandemic is over but the leader and expert's despicable response to it must not be forgotten, so herewith . . .

Five Things You Didn't Know About Your Community

There’s a localism movement afoot. The Saturday after Black Friday is now recognized as “Small Business Saturday,” an effort to remind people that it’s important to support their local stores. There has been a corresponding harsh backlash against Amazon and its disturbing gains on the back of COVID.

The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State

Revisiting de Jouvenel's 1945 classic, On Power “the spirit of domination never slumbers” Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 to an aristocratic family that embraced the “progressive” mores of the day. His parents divorced. His father married the famous novelist Colette in 1912. In 1920, de Jouvenel

Elitism v. Snobbery

I never could "get into" Bell's Crowd Culture. This micro review kinda makes me want to try again, but only "kinda." The book falls into "snobbish conservatism," which I've never much cared for. We tend to think of liberalism as