For past several months, I have exploring a project that I am not quite ready to go public with. Part of the project involves attempting to understand the motivations and convictions of my more conservative / right-leaning  friends and family. (I migrated about 15-20 years ago and a lot has changed over there in the time).

This new ‘far-right’ mentality is not exactly the conservatism that I was raised with, so I have been attempting to get up to speed on some of the more current thinking that is fueling the public outrage / backlash.

On the most recent episode of the Theology Nerd Throwdown, starting at minute 25, I fleshed out some of my concerns that are driving this emphasis. I went back and read everything from a seminar I took in 2010 called ‘Liberalism and Its Critics’. Then I launched out to find some newer material more specific to the current situation in N. America.  

Here is a sample of the kinds of things I have been looking at – and I would love some help as to what else I should engaging.

  • Political Theology: a guide for the perplexed by Elizabeth Phillips
  • A World After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
  • Regime Change by Patrick J. Deneen
  • How the Liberal Cathedral Cracked Up by Ross Douthat
  • The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre by Stanley Hauerwas
  • Podcast interview with James Pogue

Ok, so I really looking forward to your helpful suggestions! Thanks ahead of time.