http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/02/the-theocon-menace/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:22:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/02/the-theocon-menace/#comment-2022 paul h. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:33:32 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=988#comment-2022 Well ... I think Linker's point was that Neuhaus et al. resist liberalism AS SUCH (Macintyre does as well, in his own way, though he doesn't bother with politics at all, instead washing his hands of the whole business), and that when you resist liberalism, what do you have left? Linker, if I'm not mistaken (and judging by his book) seems to at least hint at the idea: what you have left is something tending towards authoritarianism and fascism (see: ultra-conservative Catholics in Vichy France, Franco's Spain, etc. etc.), a top-down authoritarian theocracy. Which is what came before liberalism, obviously (well, just before; prior to that you have the Athenian/Roman humanist pagan virtues etc.) Well … I think Linker’s point was that Neuhaus et al. resist liberalism AS SUCH (Macintyre does as well, in his own way, though he doesn’t bother with politics at all, instead washing his hands of the whole business), and that when you resist liberalism, what do you have left? Linker, if I’m not mistaken (and judging by his book) seems to at least hint at the idea: what you have left is something tending towards authoritarianism and fascism (see: ultra-conservative Catholics in Vichy France, Franco’s Spain, etc. etc.), a top-down authoritarian theocracy. Which is what came before liberalism, obviously (well, just before; prior to that you have the Athenian/Roman humanist pagan virtues etc.)

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