Well, I reckon it’s about time you finally got down to advocating for a good old fashioned merchant republic based on the fine Christian principle of sortition.
Well, Dr Hart, I look forward to this. Some tasteful help would be most appreciated in this difficult moment. Let me count the ways: American fundamentalists bowing and scraping before the orange god. A mere pandemic. A putative Christianity in America that cannot even read the Scriptura of Sole Scriptura. An insurrection movement based on Know Nothing principals. Mass executions of children in schools and African-American matriarchs in grocery stores. Abortion trumped up as a rationale for rightwing power. My own disappointment at the implicit erotic embrace of fascim by the Post-Liberal movement.
I always have this problem: I want to articulate basic truths that are unassailable, or at least very hard to argue with, yet not make definite policy proposals. But then I just feel disingenuous—like I am playing coy, clearly insinuating some proposals, but pretending I am not, lest I offend others or push them away. It seems like when we do articulate basic sensibilities, it necessarily prunes back the tree of possibilities, and there are clearer and clearer policies that we ought to pursue. I don't know.
Thanks for the heads-up, DBH. Please make sure your remarks go to @PostlibOrder, esp. Gladden Pappin. And tell wonderful Patrick Deneen to quit fretting about "socialism." Could whatever he attributes to DBHart be worse than Orban?
Well, I reckon it’s about time you finally got down to advocating for a good old fashioned merchant republic based on the fine Christian principle of sortition.
I assume that you'll come to your senses and conclude that we actually should write Wendell Berry in on every ballot... :)
Familiar with the American Solidarity Party? The ASP is based in the tradition of Christian democratic values: https://www.solidarity-party.org
Well, Dr Hart, I look forward to this. Some tasteful help would be most appreciated in this difficult moment. Let me count the ways: American fundamentalists bowing and scraping before the orange god. A mere pandemic. A putative Christianity in America that cannot even read the Scriptura of Sole Scriptura. An insurrection movement based on Know Nothing principals. Mass executions of children in schools and African-American matriarchs in grocery stores. Abortion trumped up as a rationale for rightwing power. My own disappointment at the implicit erotic embrace of fascim by the Post-Liberal movement.
Some sense would be most welcome.
Any chance we'll get another Q&A any time soon?
I always have this problem: I want to articulate basic truths that are unassailable, or at least very hard to argue with, yet not make definite policy proposals. But then I just feel disingenuous—like I am playing coy, clearly insinuating some proposals, but pretending I am not, lest I offend others or push them away. It seems like when we do articulate basic sensibilities, it necessarily prunes back the tree of possibilities, and there are clearer and clearer policies that we ought to pursue. I don't know.
Leaving it hanging makes it much more fun for everyone.
Thanks for the heads-up, DBH. Please make sure your remarks go to @PostlibOrder, esp. Gladden Pappin. And tell wonderful Patrick Deneen to quit fretting about "socialism." Could whatever he attributes to DBHart be worse than Orban?