Why Postliberalism Failed
by Thomas D. Howes & James M. Patterson
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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
About this podcast
Why Postliberalism Failed is a podcast that critiques the recent rise of interest in Catholic integralism and rightwing authoritarianism. James M. Patterson (Ave Maria) and Thomas Howes (Princeton) take the listener through the logical fallacies, theological errors, historical disasters, and political violence that has defined various “postliberal” regimes—all of which failed. They also connect these discussions to the rapid rise of postliberal ideas into rightwing politics in America and elsewhere in the world.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 27 episodes
- The Assassination of Charlie Kirk · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 9James was very delayed in uploading this discussion that breaks from our usual subject area and format, but he decided that it was still worth uploading. Mind you, the original…
- A Protestant Perspective with Joel Berry · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 8Tom and James interview Joel Berry, Managing Editor of the Christian satire website Babylon Bee, about his experiences dealing with postliberalism and Christian Nationalism on…
- The Kids Are Not Alright (with Victoria Holmes) · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 7Tom and James talk to Victoria Holmes, who works on her own video series on Catholicism and politics here on YouTube. She also works at the The Dispatch an a multimedia editor…
- Josef Tiso, Slovakia, and Collaboration · 1 h 25 min · Season 2 Episode 6James and Tom talk about Father Josef Tiso, who was dictator of Slovakia during the Second World War. During those years, Slovakia was a client state of the Third Reich, and Tiso…
- Against Deneen · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 5Tom flies solo this week in our (late) video because James is taking care of a newborn and starting classes at a new university. We will be back together to talk soon, but we…
- Yes, Franco Was a Fascist Monster · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 4After edgy social media poaster Pinesap debated the virtues of Francisco Franco in a debate with Mehdi Hasan, Franco Appreciation Content resurfaced. When Tom and James remarked…
- Ante Pavelic and the Independent State of Croatia · 1 h 20 min · Season 2 Episode 3After several requests, Tom and I decided to do an episode on the worst example of postliberal governance, the Independent State of Croatia, operated by Ante Pavelic and the…
- Vichy · 1 h 12 min · Season 2 Episode 2Thomas was eager to talk about Vichy after having completed the section on Vichy in our book. Vichy is important because of how its brief existence illustrated the inhumanity of…
- Catching Up · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 1We review some of the major developments since we wrapped recording our first season. We cover the election of noted postliberal JD Vance to the Vice Presidency, the likely…
- Dolfuss and Austrofascism with H. David Baer · 1 h 16 min · Episode 18Tom and James speak with Dr. H. David Baer (Texas Lutheran) about Englebert Dolfuss and the rise of Austrofascism of the 1930s and its influence on contemporary postliberals…
- Is It In The Parishes? with Fr. Stephen Vrazel · 1 h 11 min · Episode 17We waited until after the election to upload this episode with friend of the podcast Fr. Stephen Vrazel. Fr. Vrazel gives us a sense of how much postliberalism is part of the…
- What Weigel Gets Wrong · 1 h 13 min · Episode 16A recent episode of The Remnant featured its host, Jonah Goldberg, discussing contemporary political Catholicism with George Weigel. Weigel dismissed postliberalism and…
- God's Swiss Army Knife · 1 h 20 min · Episode 15This episode is about Fr. Martin Rhonheimer, one of the most important living theologians on the subject of human dignity, the common good, and democracy--although his work…
- Americanism · 1 h 28 min · Episode 14James talks about the misconceptions around the heresy of "Americanism" and how Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen repurposed the term to defend a form of Catholic Republicanism…
- The Social Contract with Paul DeHart · 1 h 24 min · Episode 13James interviews his friend Paul DeHart about his recent book The Social Contract in Ruins on U. of Missouri Press. Meanwhile, Tom saves his energy to make one comment during the…
- Faith through Competition with Clara Piano · 1 h 3 min · Episode 12This week's episode features a flailing James and a locked in Thomas discussing the economics of religion with Ole Miss economics professor Clara Piano. She explains recent…
- Immigration with Daniel Di Martino · 1 h 22 min · Episode 9In this episode, we speak with Daniel Di Martino about historical and contemporary postliberal policies on immigration and how they, combined with arguments for tariffs, would…
- Francisco Franco, Part 1 (with Bonus Technical Difficulties!) · 43 min · Episode 11Today, James and Tom talk about the rhetorical role the still critically dead Spanish authoritarian Francisco Franco plays in contemporary postliberal discourse. Then, Tom's…
- Civil Rights with Dawn Eden Goldstein · 1 h 7 min · Episode 10In today's episode, we spend some time talking to Dr. Dawn Eden Goldstein about American Jesuit priest Father Louis J. Twomey and his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement…
- What the Sigma? (Plínio Salgado and Brazilian Integralist Action) · 1 h 35 min · Episode 8In this week's episode, James talks about another example of a postliberal party that failed to secure a position within in government, the Brazilian Integralist Action Party…
