The Tragedy of the Republic

I was honored to provide a brief preface to this brilliant essay by the great Pierre Manent. The essay is timely: Manent explores the crisis of representation in the modern republic, an inevitable consequence of modern theories that seek the elimination of virtue from politics. https://t.co/9hzs1KUJHW

— Patrick Deneen (@PatrickDeneen) November 10, 2020

D.C. Schindler on Liberalism

D.C. Schindler does the Lord's work, locating the theological meaning of liberalism in the reduction of God to absolute potency.

This too-long-for-online essay is essential reading for anyone who would build a postliberal Christian society.https://t.co/D7nPJIOXF9

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 21, 2020

New Polity What is needed is not a philosophical analysis but a historical analysis.

Matt Dinan Reviews Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights

Today my review of Pierre Manent's Natural Law and Human Rights is the "In this Issue" in @hedgehogreview's weekly newsletter--check it out here:https://t.co/1xN86o7GqK pic.twitter.com/I8tQ9TOHNP

— Matt Dinan (@second_sailing) September 4, 2020

Public Discourse

Catholics can reject the Church of the crusades, or the Church of popes thundering interdicts and excommunications, or the “Constantinian” Church—but they cannot reject the Church of Peter and of the council of the apostles, Pierre Manent writes. https://t.co/r6jJ9KmC97

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 27, 2020

The beginning of this sentence, as it is written in Greek, follows the form of decrees made by Greek cities: “It has seemed good to the council and to the people. . . .” We can see the extraordinary audacity of this borrowed usage. We can also see which teachings this “council of the apostles,” drawing out the consequences of Pentecost, emphasizes for the manner in which we must understand “the fact of the Church.” This is not the Church copied from the form of the empire, a prideful power among prideful powers; this is the Church scarcely born, under the direction of Peter, an association deprived of everything that gives strength and credit to a human association. It is this Church that declares her power and her right to deliberate and decide as the human city deliberates and decides. In short, the Church has the form and consistency of a city.

Today Catholics can reject the Church of the crusades, or the throne and altar, or the Church of popes thundering interdicts and excommunications, or the “Constantinian” Church—but they cannot reject the Church of Peter and of the council of the apostles. If the Church today is something other than the sum of our nostalgias—or the print left behind by a “big thing” that we don’t know the meaning of, only we know that it does not concern us any more—it is because she is something other than an association of individuals exercising their right to have opinions. She is a kind of city, a “commanding form” in which a specific work is conducted, a work that operates on the whole man and is proposed to all men—this work that the Church in her weighty but clear language calls “sanctification” and whose source and body dwell in the sacrifice of the Mass.

Gerald Russello Reviews Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason by Pierre Manent

City Journal

Natural Law for Modern Times | City Journal https://t.co/nL7cjheOHL

— Allen Mendenhall (@allenmendenhall) July 27, 2020

Holloway Review of Manent

Public Discourse: The Problem of Human Rights by Carson Holloway

"The human rights project, perhaps intoxicated by its remarkable recent successes (such as the redefinition of marriage) is overreaching," Carson Holloway writes. https://t.co/DipHYjjV80

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) June 2, 2020

Hunt Review of Manent

The American Mind: Breaking Our Modern Paralysis by Ross Hunt

"Manent’s prescient critique of human rights may be the best tool at our disposal to interpret the weaknesses that COVID-19 has revealed." ~@Ross_Hunt in @theammind

Read the full essay here: https://t.co/75wQS9dHIv pic.twitter.com/4Fo1ARUNL9

— UNDPress (@UNDPress) May 30, 2020

Démocratie : vers quelle finalité commune ?

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