Thread by @yhazony

This is a surprisingly well-researched and balanced NYT essay on the growing rebellion against liberalism among American and European conservatives.

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https://twitter.com/longform/status/1450469321701011466

The biggest problem with this analysis is that it tends to see a revived (“post-liberal”) conservatism as a basically Catholic phenomenon.

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Every connection with Catholicism is spelled out. But when Jews such as @oren_cass and @josh_hammer are discussed as leading (“post-liberal) conservative figures, somehow the fact that they are Jews doesn’t come up.

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Similarly, the growing post-liberalism among Protestants is left out entirely. No mention is made of the fact that Orban and many of the yound men and women around him are committed Protestants. Or of the signs of a “post-liberal” Protestant conservatism rising in the US.

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Once you recognize that the rejection of liberalism is a growing intellectual position among Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, the picture looks rather different.

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It isn’t just something peculiar about Catholic intellectuals and the European Catholic tradition. It’s a much deeper phenomenon touching on issues that speak to most conservatives, regardless of their particular religious and national affiliation.

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If you want to understand the broader picture @zerofskaya, you might take a look at the National Conservatism Conference convening at the end of the month. nationalconservatism.org/natcon-2-2021/

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Almost all of the (“post-liberal”) conservative figures you name will be there—speaking alongside anti-Marxist liberals who are increasingly willing to consider an alliance.

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That’s the real political landscape emerging on the right:

Conservative Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, and Jews who are critical of liberalism working together—and increasingly being joined by anti-Marxist liberals too.

That’s the big story to pay attention to.

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