Harrison Searles traces how Patriots during the American Revolution used intimidation, disarmament, confiscation, conscription, and even execution against fellow Americans who resisted their cause, arguing that the struggle for liberty was also a civil war.
David Schmidtz presents reciprocity as the joyful, context-sensitive practice of appropriately returning or paying forward genuine favors, thereby sustaining cooperation and common humanity without creating perpetual social debt.
James M. Patterson and Thomas D. Howes’s Why Postliberalism Failed argues that postliberalism’s rejection of individual agency, liberal democracy, economic freedom, and subsidiarity in favor of centralized Catholic authoritarianism has repeatedly produced repression, poverty, and political failure while contradicting modern Catholic social teaching.
For its tenth anniversary, Sarah Thomas reviews John Milbank and Adrian Pabst’s The Politics of Virtue. As the first and most theoretically sophisticated account of postliberalism, the moral vision presented in The Politics of Virtue tends toward a state coercion that disregards historicity and the knowledge problem, while the ambiguities of its civil economy model fail to reflect the dynamics of economic action.