What would an integral Right look like? In this talk I focus on a new front in conservative politics: so-called “post-liberalism.” This movement is closely tied to “Catholic integralism,” which is worlds apart from integral theory. I sketch the main ideas and thinkers in the movement, and argue that it is actually a mashup of a pre-liberal traditionalism aiming to undo the separation of church and state, and a postmodern conservatism detached from empirical reality. By rejecting the fruits of modernity, post-liberals are the mirror image of many progressives. At the same time, the post-liberals rightly alert us to the dangers of destroying the traditional topsoil necessary for a liberal society to thrive, they strike common cause with progressives in rejecting neoliberal capitalism, and they remind us of the deep reservoirs of moral and spiritual truth in our religious traditions. They err, however, in adopting an ethnocentric, literal understanding of the Catholic tradition.
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