Postliberalism in Western Kentucky

I was honored to recently be featured as a guest on the American Postliberal podcast. 

The American Postliberal was launched in 2023 by a group of young Catholic intellectuals who are seeking to help articulate a vision of Catholic realism to guide Americans in this unique political and cultural moment. I've been pleased to serve as a contributor for the American Postliberal over the last year. My essays published there so far include the following:

• Beyond the laptop class (September 8, 2023).
• Catholics and "Red Caesar" (November 22, 2023).
• Liberalism leads to Marxism (January 24, 2024).

The American Postliberal offers a youthful, pragmatic take on the larger postliberal movement. Postliberalism is a political philosophy, closely associated with the work of professors Patrick Deneen, Yoram Hazony, and others, that helps explain the current political and cultural crisis facing Western Civilization through a critique of liberalism, how liberal assumptions have shaped and distorted the perceptions of thinkers on both the political left and right, and how liberalism inevitably leads to its own demise in the forms of various kinds of totalitarianism. Rather than just diagnosing doom, however, postliberalism, especially of the variety offered at the American Postliberal, also seeks to articulate a vision forward, and how a common good conservatism can restore a healthy social and political order. 

We discuss some of these concepts, and especially how they apply to my work in education, on the podcast. You can also listen via YouTube, below.