Thomas D. Howes

My two book projects are: Why Postliberalism Failed and Beyond Postliberalism. --- I am very happy right now with the choice of those titles.

@TheAlanNoble Congrats!

In other news, I’m officially a Full Professor. What am I full of? Well, gratitude.

It's pretty bad faith to choose the most unflattering pictures of the lady playing Helen of Troy to make a point about the movie's casting.

It’s pretty insane how many horses were killed during WW1, also humans.

So this is tonight 😬

The real esoteric Minerd: athomist.com/articles/the-m…

@olivertraldi The Spanish scholastics. Thomas Reid. Michael Polanyi. J.M.E. McTaggart.

Had an idea of making an "almost-Great Books" syllabus, which might include things like - The best expressions of worldviews which ended up losing - The second-best expressions of worldviews which ended up winning - Less-known works by canonical authors What would you put on it?

The Postliberal movement's flagship blog hasn't published anything since before Viktor Orban lost his reelection in a landslide.

@AdeleScalia That couple deserved each other.

“He’s about to meet the mystery woman who likes piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. Make her his own wife.”

@ReaganiteChris The Helen of Troy one is true, but people are intentionally sharing only unflattering pictures of the actress. She probably looks fine in the movie. The other one is unconfirmed and there are reasons to think it's not true.

@ReaganiteChris No

For what it's worth, in response to the Odyssey discussion, I was told by conservative media that Indiana Jones 5 was woke and it turned out to be a good movie that had very little to do with politics.

@Josheye Agreed.

@ThomasDHowes It was a good movie! Underrated too

Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza, courtesy of the @Raiders:

If you have ever wondered what postliberalism is or are intrigued by the theory & its history, read this excellent forward by @CRPakaluk. It will appear alongside Archbishop Cordileone’s own forward to a new book “Why Postliberalism Failed.” Check it out! blog.acton.org/archives/12837…

Raiders of the Lost Ark is set in 1936—about 45 years before its 1981 release. Now, 45 years have passed since it first hit theaters in 1981.

@rclu @CRPakaluk @ActonInstitute I learned, again, that I never want to be on the wrong end of a @CRPakaluk essay, too. Yeesh.

@ThomasDHowes Great piece.

Great read.

“The postliberals have rejected Wall Street, and good for them…But they have moved into their own gated district—call it Elite Street—adopting a new form of managerial ambition while denouncing the old one. They reject the laptop class and long for a crozier class.”

New and young at heart @cardinaldolan @archbishophicks @stpatsnyc

"It is no accident that Carl Schmitt—a Nazi party member, yes, but more to the point, a theorist who made the political the foundational category of human life—has become something of a patron saint for the movement." blog.acton.org/archives/12837…