JD Vance's ascent to the Vice Presidency is the clearest signal yet that post-liberal political philosophy — once confined to Catholic integralist journals and dissident conservative seminars — has become a governing doctrine. Its premises deserve examination proportional to its influence.
The documented rise in purposelessness across OECD populations is not primarily a spiritual story — it is an economic story about the dissolution of institutional structures that historically provided meaning as a byproduct.
A new intellectual convergence is emerging across left and right that questions the Enlightenment-Progressive framework — neither conservatism nor pessimism, but a structural shift in how serious minds model human possibility.