Virtuous Liberty: Get the Book Today
A Christian Defense of Classical Liberalism and the Free Society Against Cultural Leftism and the New Right
Dear friends:
Good things come to those who wait. This important book addressing the pressing sociopolitical issues of our day is now available from CCL in both hardcopy and digital format.
CCL donors, your copy should arrive within several weeks. If you’re attending CCL’s symposium in the Bay Area on December 2, you will receive a complimentary copy.
This is a major statement of 22 chapters defending the Protestant classically liberal society as biblical against the New Left, the New Right, post-liberalism, Integralism, Cultural Marxism, cancel culture, kinism, racism, statism, anti-Americanism, church-state merging, the nature-grace distinction, natural theology, economic nationalism, Christian Nationalism, National Conservatism, postmodern restorationism, the New Masculinity, and more.
Contributors include David Bahnsen, Joe Boot, Kevin Johnson, Brian Mattson, P. Andrew Sandlin, Richard A. Sandlin, Levi Secord, Robert Sirico, Jeff Ventrella.
The free society our U. S. Founders secured by God’s blessing with their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” is under withering assault today from the Left and Right. Some critics believe the Founding basis (including its indisputably Protestant distinctive) has outlived its usefulness. Others argue the nation was a botched experiment from the start. Still others simply hate and wish to destroy our common heritage, which ironically provides these ingrates the freedom to criticize it in the first place.
Globalist Marxisms have captured huge swaths of the U. S. Left and the Democratic Party. Usually this is Cultural Marxism, which sees the Founding as inherently oppressive: white supremacy, heteronormativity, self-centered individualism, enslaving patriarchy, greedy capitalism, Western imperialism, and the last residue of Christian culture are entrenched, retrograde oppressions that must be overthrown to pave the way for the revolutionary, just (egalitarian) society ruled by a bureaucratic Leftist elite. The goal, as in all other Culturally Marxist societies, is to harness the state to marginalize and emasculate the family, church, and business. This is how Globalist Marxism destroys the glorious and God-glorifying American Dream. This destruction is unfolding before our eyes.
Tribalist nationalisms, on the other side, have transformed generous sectors of the American Right into a European-style, blood-and-soul conservatism the U. S. Founders were intent to abandon. Their war on economic liberty, their identity-politics collectivism, their centralizing nanny statism, their institution-destroying nihilism, their lust for a Great Leader to enforce their will (all often sprinkled with racism) poison the American Right and the Republican Party. I denote specifically some National Conservatives, the Integralists, the New Right, “Christian” Nationalists, and the Bronze Age Mindset new masculinity (the “Lost Boys of Conservatism”) — all ideas not merely “post-liberal” but also post-Christian in practice.
Two factors unite both globalist Marxisms and tribalist nationalisms, despite fierce, unbridgeable disagreements: (1) a numbing, base ingratitude for the United States of America; and (2) an eagerness to employ the sledgehammer of the state to enforce their “common good” will on society.
CCL will stand for neither, and opposes both equally. The present book is a testimony to that opposition as well as a pointer back to what made America great in the first place.
Get the book and read it.
Yours for the King,
Founder & President, Center for Cultural Leadership