R. Hittinger on Social Ontology

Listen to “Social Ontology: Concepts and Verification” by Doctor Russell Hittinger on the Thomistic Institute Podcast 👉https://t.co/ZDE4guFlCx pic.twitter.com/dqXg2K7Oii

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) November 15, 2023

Bill McCormick's Book on the De Regno

My book is on sale right now! Probably because it is selling too many copies. Use discount code THEO22.https://t.co/IdF11t8kyt

— Bill McCormick, SJ (@BMcCSJ) July 4, 2022

A Questionable Conclusion

very important to remind Catholics and even certain priests on Twitter that the Magisterium does in fact have something to say about these mandates and it isn’t in their favor

this for example is taken from paragraph 70 of Pius XI’s Casti connubii pic.twitter.com/zJjWMHfYH7

— Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) September 14, 2021

Injustice does provide limits to civil authority, but punishment alone doesn't tell us what is just and unjust.

Danny Kruger Reviews Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal by Adrian Pabst

Excellent review of Adrian Pabst’s book by Danny Kruger. https://t.co/Xe7QcHTGbC

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) August 26, 2021

Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal

New Polity Critique of Carl Schmitt

People have asked us why we don't like Carl Schmitt. Here's our response.https://t.co/242xkNKmNf

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) July 6, 2021

The Political Philosophy of the European City

I had to pick it up from the Post Office, but it was worth it: I received today the author's copies from Rowman and Littlefield of my book
"The Political Philosophy of the European City." https://t.co/7BDRQfNf4y
I am now assured it's a real object. Next Q: will it have readers? pic.twitter.com/XIJgUJ8DZz

— Ferenc Hörcher (@HorcherF) June 18, 2021

Projecting unto St. Joseph

Whet your political-theological appetite: Joseph is traditionally opposed to Herod, as the Just Man is opposed to the Tyrant; Joseph reveals fatherhood as a fundamental political and spiritual form, passing on the line of David beyond biological descent.

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) June 16, 2021

What do we know of the virtues or example of St. Joseph? Nothing. We can know something about the virtues of Christ by participating in Him; what knowledge can we have of St. Joseph, about whom (and the Theotokos as well) so little was written, even if one considers the apocrypha. One can only project what thinks are the virtues of a man and of a woman unto them, and what if one's understanding of masculine and feminine excellences are incorrect? It becomes a form of creating a false authority to justify one's assumptions - a form of circular reasoning.

A Critique of Usury

“The natural rate theory demands faith in an unseen entity: the natural rate of interest. Its proponents ... assure that if economists have enough faith in this entity ..., we will be the recipients of economic grace. It is an eminently Protestant theory.”

Awesome. https://t.co/Ri64FcJw7x

— Robert Morgan (@partylike1399) June 8, 2021

St. Augustine on Virtue and Politics

What qualities are required in citizens for the flourishing of a polis? Join @jennfrey of @eudaimoniapod, Russell Hittinger, and Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP for a conversation on Augustine on virtue and politics

with @americamag

HAPPENING NOW: https://t.co/WhoxJq27Rh pic.twitter.com/Ysqmjklep9

— Lumen Christi (@LC_Institute) May 1, 2021

FUS Conference on Politike

Many thanks to @PostliberalTho1
for a tremendously fun and thought provoking conference.
https://t.co/eZdRI0nFoG

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) March 21, 2021

Blast of a conference with the New Polity crew—@PostliberalTho1, Marc Barnes, Jacob Imam, Andrew Willard Jones, & many others

They’re also actively revitalizing the downtown area where the conference was hosted. Amazing work!

Saturday’s panel is here 👇🏻https://t.co/yvktZUQuFE

— Gladden Pappin (@gjpappin) March 21, 2021

A Common Good Approach to Constitutionalism?

Here is the video of 'Toward a Common Good Approach to Constitutionalism' with @Caseyco231 It was a great conversation in our 'What is the Common Good?' series and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed hosting Conor. https://t.co/0rtQCGz9ey

— CommonGoodProject (@CommonGoodProj1) March 18, 2021

Solidarity

Solidarity
Volume 1 | Issue 2
Social Justice Quarterly

Check it out!https://t.co/B6B4OHVqs5 pic.twitter.com/2TcAmauf1V

— Leonine Institute (@leoinstituteCST) January 28, 2021

Can't recommend this issue; the essays are naive explanations of solidarity that do not critically examine the assumption of the state and community.

Sertillanges Was Wrong About the Nation(-State)

He wasn't critical enough in his assumptions or first principles.

Note that Sertillanges, as orthodox a Thomist as there ever was, took for granted that there is such a thing as a nation, a family of families, bounded within borders, a reasonable object of natural political attachment.

Modern cosmopolitan theory didn’t enter his mind.

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) February 2, 2021

A Failing of "Classical Liberal Theory"

or at least a lacuna if we are talking about Aristotle.

Legitimacy in liberal political theory depends completely upon the consent of the governed; in classical political theory, it depends upon the goodness of the governor. It perplexes me each day that liberal political theory is understood as the more progressive of the two.

— Jamie McGowan (@SpesScotorum) January 31, 2021

It's not either-or. It's both.

Gratitude and the Desire for Home

Herriot’s tales of the people and creatures of another time and place are precisely what the doctor ordered.https://t.co/hRxPfZBoLN

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 29, 2021

Interview with Marc Barnes

Liberty, equality. and fraternity are ideals that only make sense within the Church.

Thanks for the interview, @tradtom: https://t.co/znd7qZwUYv

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) November 18, 2020

The Tradistae Podcast

James Matthew Wilson on Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain was born OTD 138 years ago. Don't miss the large selection of his works available from our friends over at @UNDPress (many of them are linked in the piece).

In Defense of Jacques Maritain Against His Neo-Integralist Critics
by @JMWSPThttps://t.co/tMCHU9sAkQ

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) November 18, 2020

CLJ

Interview with R. Hittinger on Maritain's Scholasticism and Politics

My interview with Russ Hittinger about about Maritain's "Scholasticism and Freedom" https://t.co/BnRDlh8Kca https://t.co/EcXVaHm7Vx

— Richard Reinsch (@Reinsch84) November 18, 2020

Law & Liberty

Taleb's Politike

I'm very grateful to @nntaleb for sharing generously with my class today. I don't know if many academics are assigning these works yet, but students found Skin in the Game and Principia Politica engaging reads which help integrate ideas from across disciplines. Thank you Maestro! https://t.co/Drj3CzoudM

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) November 12, 2020

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