In the latest issue of Perspectives on Political Science , I organized a symposium on Peter Lawler’s most recent book (since last I checked) Homeless and at Home in America . Besides the brief introduction and an article that I contributed, there are also brilliant pieces by Yuval Levin, Marc Guerra, and Pat Deneen. In this very important work, Lawler provides a deep and original interpretation of the Christian Thomism he detects at the heart of the American founding, the way in which this Thomistic perspective is often at odds with and is overshadowed by the Lockean influence that competes with it to be the authoritative account of our nation’s original premises, and the nature of a Thomistic realism, or a "science of theology", that constitutes the core of a "postmodernism, rightly understood". As Ralph Hancock has suggested right here on this blog, this is essential reading for anyone interested in pinning down the meaning of postmodern conservatism.
