Guatemalan Catholics, just like people you might have met in seventeenth-century Plymouth, right? RIGHT?
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“Catholic migrants from Central America now have more in common with our Puritan forebears than do most Europeans.”
So argues Matthew Schmitz, a Catholic writer who supports Yoram Hazony’s “national conservatism.” He claims that a multi-racial nationalism is possible so long as it’s guided by Judeo-Christian faith. Read more …
Whose Common Good?
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The prevailing conservative legal theory is ripe for a challenge in the nationalist era. Ever since the 1970s, originalism — which mandates a strict interpretation of the Constitution’s original intent — has held sway over the American Right. This mindset has resulted in a deification of the Constitution and the inability to recognize current predicaments as different from the 18th century. Read more …