Mark Tooley on “The New Whiggery,” Christian Realism, and Classical Liberalism

In This Episode:

• Mark Tooley, President of the Institute for Religion and Democracy, joins the podcast to discuss “The New Whiggery,” the IRD’s new fellowship on the principles of classical liberalism and the American Founding
• what a Christian realism approach to foreign policy looks like
• how classical liberalism differs from conservatism, and why some right-leaning thinkers like Hayek wanted to eschew the term “conservative”

Texts Mentioned:

• Providence Magazine
• Plough Magazine
• The New Whiggery Fellowship
• “Thomas Aquinas, The First Whig” by Michael Novak
• The Englishman and His History by Herbert Butterfield
• “Why I Am Not a Conservative” by F.A. Hayek
• The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism by Michael Novak
• God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• “The New Whiggery” by Mark Tooley
• The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk

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