Race, Liberalism, and the Catholic Response
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006To qualify as a paleo-conservative in some circles it seems as though one must enlist in a militant crusade to preserve the “white race”, or at the very least, to maintain “racial distinctions” against whatever threatens to erode them. My response is that a program of maintaining racial distinctions when nature does not cooperate (i.e., when language and religion and geography and immobility are not significant barriers) requires turning the priorities of Catholicism upside down. Similarly, the idea that cultural restoration requires an explicitly race-based nationalism also does violence to Catholic social priorities.
ECR once again has the honor of presenting the commentary of Matt Anger, a traditionalist writer who has investigated the topic with considerably more rigor and seriousness than I have. Although Mr. Anger has the good sense to avoid the undisciplined habit of “blogging”, he has generously agreed to contribute to ECR as time permits.