Restlessly seek power after power ceasing only in death, or just try to be a little crueler every day? Wherein the gang flows along the surface of life’s path as they please; unleash Newman’s critique of political liberalism; ponder what it means for liberal education that Basil and Julian were fellow-students at the schools of Athens; decry the shortcomings and superficialities of great books educations; and ask whether Christians can be gentlemen in the end.

All this and much more!

Bibliography for pts 1 & 2:

Susannah Black, “On Presley Progressivism“
Patrick Deneen, “A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching,” The American Conservative (2014)
Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale, 2016)
Ryszard Legutko, The Demon in Democracy (Encounter, 2016)
Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan [1651], (Hackett, 1994)
The Complete Essays of Montaigne, ed. Donald Frame (Stanford, 1958)
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University [1852], ed. Martin Svaglic (Notre Dame, 1984)
John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua [1864], ed. Ian Ker (Penguin, 1994)
John Henry Newman, “Biglietto Speech” (1879)
John Rawls, Political Liberalism [1993], (Columbia, 2005)
Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge, 1989)
Gabriel Sanchez, “Illiberal Catholicism One Year On,” Front Porch Republic (2015)
Judith Shklar, Ordinary Vices (Harvard, 1984)
Felix de St. Vincent, “Four Catholic Political Postures,” The Josias (2017)
Edmund Waldstein, “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016)

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