Oz Conservative

 I saw the following comment on social media this week:
To me this is importantly true, but in a particular way. It is a kind of higher truth, an aspect of Logos, or the divine order, the one that is available to our higher intelligence and that expresses a kind of ideal harmonising or fitting together of...

Zohran Mamdani has just been elected Mayor of New York. It's an interesting moment as he is both Muslim and radically leftist in his politics.
Zohran Mamdani
An Australian political analyst, Kos Samaris, has published a newspaper article on Mamdani's victory, which is interesting for what it suggests about the liberal understanding of progress....

I'm currently reading Regime Change: Towards a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen. In this work Deneen puts forward a different way of thinking about political distinctions:
a) the goal of classical liberals, progressive liberals and Marxists has been transformative progress...

In Patrick Deneen's latest work, Regime Change: Towards a Postliberal Future, he uses the concept of "transformative progress" to describe a common aim of those committed to the modern project. Deneen writes:
The first liberals - "classical liberals" - believed especially that economic progress through an ever-freer and more expansive market could fuel a transformative social and political order in which growing prosperity would always outstrip economic discontents...