.@philippilk argues that both ethno-nationalism and Scrutonian conservatism are forms of right-wing identity politics that cannot facilitate real political change. Read it today, only in @PostlibOrder ⬇️ postliberalorder.com/p/liber…

In my latest piece for @PostlibOrder I argue that the upsurge of pure nationalist politics on the right is just a new form of identity politics that cannot serve as a template for government in the post- liberal world. Link in comment. 🔗👇

Apparently, there’s some growing interest in The Odyssey as well as the American founding. As luck would have it, I’ve written a new book that explores the connection between the two - America as the consummate land of Odyssean wanderers and homeseekers. The book has just arrived at the printers and will be released on July 21. But you can pre-order now, and be the first to receive a copy in what is shaping up to be an EPIC July, 2026! amazon.com/American-Odyssey-…

.@philippilk examines the non- functional status of liberalism, and the descriptively operative reality of a postliberal view of political orders. Read it today, only in @PostlibOrder ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/postli…

If you want to know where postliberalism as an intellectual movement is right now this is the first published survey. It’s come a long way in the past decade-and-a-half! 👇

An important piece by @philippilk furthering a line of argument developed also by @Vermeullarmine. Textualism is a Trojan horse and not the remedy to liberal judicial activism. Only natural law and the traditional Western metaphysics that underlies it can do the job.

“We’re settling into our Thanksgiving days,” I tell a friend from Europe, explaining that it entails “a great amount of cooking, and eating, and mostly doing nothing for a few days.” I try to explain that it is an important kind of “laying fallow” in American culture which specifically calls us to give thanks to God for giving us a homeland. Perhaps some take America for granted. Some will be tempted to despair, others will not have enough faith to know Whom to thank for anything. But I tend to think that most Americans will at least think about God as the cause of all good things — but especially they might think about God as the cause of the common goodness of the American thing. The thought of the Res Americana might pluck some mystic chord of gratitude within them between all the preparations and feasting. We owe God so much more than this, of course, but suffice it to say that I tried to communicate to my friend how Thanksgiving reminds us who we are as a people. It’s both deeply Christian and deeply American at once. Our next 250 years depends on how this day orients us. These fallow days inscribe in us a civic awareness that Christianity is not only an essential makeweight against disorder in the soul, the family, the nation, civilization itself — it’s also ennobling, it elevates. It’s like a grace which operates on us, and we Americans should lean into it.