“Why Postliberalism Failed, by James M. Patterson and Thomas D. Howes, enters that debate with an ambitious claim. Contemporary postliberalism, they argue, is neither novel nor untested. It is best understood as the latest expression of an older political tradition whose historical record is considerably less attractive than many of its advocates acknowledge.” - Acton
“Some Christian nationalists are calling for a ‘confessional state, ‘establishing Christianity as the national religion that steers the government…. Notice that all state churches are now theologically liberal in the extreme and that all of the ‘confessional states’ of Europe are now secularist to the extreme.” - Veith
“Catholic integralists want to bring back an Emperor under the authority of the Pope. Calvinist reconstructionists would like to see a church with temporal authority. Pentecostal Seven Mountain activists … So it’s a good time to think through whether Christianity can take on political power so as to impose its religious and moral teachings on non-believers.” - Veith
“The post-liberals are not wrong to point out many of the serious limits of theoretical or philosophical liberalism. Nor are they wrong that liberalism has been increasingly defined by excessive individualism, contempt for tradition and traditional wisdom…. But the post-liberals tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater.” - American Mind
“As did Richard Land a generation ago, Baker argues for the accommodationist view, one that eschews both the establishment of an official state church and a secularism that drives Christianity from public life.” - Dan Darling
“There are at least four groups that compose the modern American illiberal right: the alt-right, integralists, tech authoritarian-libertarians, and national conservative populists.” - Persasion
“Beyond its exploration of the past, Religion & Republic offers Protestants—and indeed any religious citizens—an option for civic engagement that avoids the extremes of apolitical submission and full-spectrum aggression.” - Acton
“Self-styled ‘post-liberal’ conservatives see the American founding as the flawed product of the radical, secular Enlightenment. They argue that the American experiment in ordered liberty was already rotten the moment Jefferson put pen to paper in 1776.” - Acton
“liberalism in the tradition of Locke, Kant, and the Founders…. Its central philosophy is that all persons are born free and equal. Its operational principles include the rule of law, pluralism, toleration, minority rights, distributed authority, limited government, and (subject to the other requirements) democratic decision-making.” - Persuasion
“The former (speaker 1) wants a Protestant confessional state, and the other (speaker 2) is sympathetic to a Catholic integralist state…. We hope this conversation will be the first of many on the topic of liberalism versus post-liberalism.” - Juicy Ecumenism
