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A brother Jesuit recommended this new @SohrabAhmari essay to me this morning (not realizing it would be quite relevant to the Barron-Mumandi Twitter debate currently raging!) It is so freakin good & you will surely learn a lot from reading it (as I did!)
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'The Future of Christian Democracy'
A @CommonwealMag symposium responding to @SohrabAhmari with @JosephMcCartin, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Patrick McKinley Brennan, and John J. DiIulio Jr.
The December issue is here!🎄Inside:
- @SohrabAhmari calls for a Christian-democratic renewal—and four contributors respond
- Aaron Robertson reports on Black Catholic life in Detroit
- Commonweal editors and friends recommend Christmas reads
And more!
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'What Was Christian Democracy?'
The historian and philosopher Jan-Werner Müller will deliver this year's Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture at the IWM Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna:
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“Instead of renewing Christian assumptions underpinning the social and political covenant, [Thatcherism] gave birth to another dynamic individualistic ideology that worships the vacuity of choice.”
Former Lib Dem candidate David Campanale:
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The leadership and coalition-building of Alcide De Gasperi was decisive for Italy's transition from fascism to democracy:
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One thing I’ve learned from Twitter: the things I’m most interested in - postwar social democracy and Christian democracy - are not the things most people are interested in. Which is a shame, as these are highly successful systems of political economy.
The @FT writes about the growth of more Christian-democratic thinking amongst American Catholics.
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Yes. Christian Democracy reconstituted European democracy, built the biggest welfare states, and founded the European Union. But it has largely been airbrushed from history.
The excellent @T4CG has a strong programme of events across the coming months.
Speakers include @JonCruddas_1 & Maurice Glasman of @blue_labour, @suzania, and @ddhitchens.
More info here: togetherforthecommongood.co.…
Last year, @TheAmScho wrote about Konrad Adenauer's octogenarian statesmanship:
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How do the Christian Democratic parties of the Nordic countries compare?
@d_bromme explored this in an essay and webinar for @KASonline:
kas.de/en/web/nordische/sing…
How do complex governmental institutions simultaneously erode and persist?
@FukuyamaFrancis explores American decay in @ForeignAffairs:
foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
What is Christian Democracy?
A recent book by @CUNY Professor @cinvernizzi1983 attempted an answer.
@GChamedes (@UWMadison) @JamesChappel (@DukeU) and Martin Conway (@BalliolOxford) discuss it here in @RevDem2020:
revdem.ceu.edu/2022/04/26/wh…
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"The question thus shifts from whether we should be playing God to how we should do this."
Alister McGrath gives a brilliant review of @theosnick and @h_waite710's Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity in @TheTLS.
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VV interesting article in the House Magazine about debates within the left about the pro-parent, pro-kids agenda - seems like some of the more interesting people on the left are latching on to it, but facing resistence from older politicians.
politicshome.com/thehouse/ar…
Kenneth Meshoe has led the @A_C_D_P since South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994.
He reflects on the foundation and purpose of his party:
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‘The Red Christian’
@MadocCairns in @NewStatesman on how Jacques Maritain, one of the most influential Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century, changed the world.
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#NewAcquisitions @HeythropLib : Italy's Christian democracy : the Catholic encounter with political modernity / Rosario Forlenza and Bjøorn Thomassen. @OxUniPress, 2024, 9780198859864. Catalogue record : catalogue.libraries.london.a…
ALT Book cover of Italy's Christian democracy : the Catholic encounter with political modernity / Rosario Forlenza and Bjøorn Thomassen. Featuring an illustrated map of Italy with a 'Libertas' symbol.
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Perhaps the strangest policy story I have ever reported on.
How Labour’s imposition of VAT will endanger the smallest, poorest, most threadbare schools in the country: spectator.co.uk/article/reli…
