Neo-integralists today lack formation in republican institutions, and succumb too easily to the lure of authoritarianism.
James M. Patterson
Integralism is an internet aesthetic of mostly young men alienated from the public life and consumed with the libido dominandi.
James Patterson talks about three legendary clergymen in America and how they shaped our public discourse.
Liberalism has never had a prefabricated essence ascertained all at once or implemented with a coherent plan.
Clarifying the relationship between liberal democracy and Catholicism in America for those whose history doesn’t go further back than the 1980s.
The issue is no longer the preservation of liberal arts curricula at elite liberal arts colleges. By now, these institutions have made their choices.
It is better to embrace the freedom of moral and intellectual diversity across institutions.
James M. Patterson is Associate Professor of Politics at Ave Maria University and the author of Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell (University of Pennsylvania, 2019).