As we lament Adrian Vermeule& #39;s Lenten absence, he has bequeated us this communitarian understanding of a constitution and the state it constitutes

"Promoting a substantive vision of the good is, always and everywhere, the proper function of rulers." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
This review by @suzania of Adrian Vermeule& #39;s essay is very good:

"And those conservatives who reject it do so, whether or not they realize it, on liberal bases; their conservatism is right-liberalism." https://mereorthodoxy.com/common-good-constitutionalism/">https://mereorthodoxy.com/common-go...
An ongoing problem for the US& #39; Right was how classical liberalism was heretically rebadged as "conservatism". Europe& #39;s Right never embraced Hayekian liberalism, rather Tory paternalism & Christian Democracy esp after Rerum Novarum.

Then came Thatcher & Reagan...and their cults
The response to Adrian Vermeule & more traditional conservatism here by @sladesr interviewing @DavidAFrench probably puts the classically liberal case as well as it can be...but just shows the US Right& #39;s repurposing of liberalism over communitarianism https://reason.com/2020/04/11/i-think-the-protection-of-liberty-is-a-common-good/">https://reason.com/2020/04/1...
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