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Timeline: Integralism and postliberalism

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2026

  1. DHS confirms hiring of postliberal theologian Chad Pecknold

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Catholic University theologian Chad Pecknold, a Postliberal Order co-founder, had joined it as Principal Director for Cultural Outreach; he took leave from teaching. The appointment drew coverage across Catholic media amid disputes between the U.S. bishops and the administration over immigration (OSV News, National Catholic Register, America).

    SourcesCatholic U. theology professor joins Homeland Security as cultural outreach… (OSV News)Catholic Theologian Takes Job in Trump's Department of Homeland Security (National Catholic Register)Catholic University theology professor joins Homeland Security as cultural… (America)Chad Pecknold, Catholic postliberal thinker with Orban, Vance ties, takes role… (National Catholic Reporter)

  2. Gladden Pappin's resignation from Hungary's foreign-affairs institute is accepted

    Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán accepted Gladden Pappin's resignation as head of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs on 31 July 2026; on 3 August the ministry named Botond Feledy as director general and returned the institute to ministry supervision (Telex, Hungarian Conservative).

    SourcesFeledy Botond lett a Magyar Külügyi Intézet új vezetője (Telex)Feledy Botond a Magyar Külügyi Intézet új vezetője (ATV)Hungary's New Foreign Policy Architects Outline 'Complete Break' with MAGA Camp (Hungarian Conservative)Lemondott a Magyar Külügyi Intézet amerikai vezetője (Telex)

2024

  1. Austrian weekly Falter profiles integralist monk Edmund Waldstein

    Falter published a long profile of Heiligenkreuz monk Edmund Waldstein, founder of The Josias, describing him as a source of ideas for the American right and reporting that J.D. Vance appeared to be paying attention to him.

    SourceWie ein österreichischer Mönch zum Stichwortgeber der US-Rechten wurde (Falter)

2023

  1. Gladden Pappin becomes head of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs

    Postliberal Order co-founder Gladden Pappin took charge of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, a government foreign-policy institute then operating under the Prime Minister's Office (Hungarian Conservative).

    SourcesHungary's New Foreign Policy Architects Outline 'Complete Break' with MAGA Camp (Hungarian Conservative)Gladden Pappin (speaker biography) (Budapest Balkans Forum)

2022

  1. Vermeule's book Common Good Constitutionalism is published

    Polity published Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism, which drew critical reviews from originalist and natural-law scholars in the Harvard Law Review and Notre Dame Law Review, and from Randy Barnett (Volokh Conspiracy).

    SourcesWhat Common Good? (The American Prospect)The "Common-Good" Manifesto (Harvard Law Review)Recovering Classical Legal Constitutionalism: A Critique of Professor… (Notre Dame Law Review)Deep-State Constitutionalism (The Volokh Conspiracy (Reason))

2021

  1. Deneen, Pappin, Pecknold and Vermeule launch Postliberal Order

    Four Catholic academics, Patrick Deneen, Gladden Pappin, Chad Pecknold and Adrian Vermeule, began publishing the Postliberal Order newsletter in 2021; a 2024 academic article dates the decision to launch it to November 2021 (LARB, UKSW article).

    SourcesThe Enemy of My Enemy Is Not My Friend: On Sohrab Ahmari's "Tyranny, Inc." and… (Los Angeles Review of Books)[Journal article on the postliberal movement, PDF, 2024] (title reconstructed) (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW) journals)

2020

  1. Adrian Vermeule proposes "common-good constitutionalism" in The Atlantic

    In a March 2020 essay in The Atlantic, Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule argued that originalism had outlived its usefulness for conservatives and proposed a constitutionalism directed toward the common good. The Atlantic published rebuttals by Garrett Epps and Randy Barnett days later (ABA Journal, Harvard Crimson, RNS).

    SourcesForget originalism; some conservatives back 'common-good constitutionalism,'… (ABA Journal)The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence (The Harvard Crimson)A new Catholic legal doctrine (Religion News Service)Beyond Originalism (Teaching American History (reprint of The Atlantic essay))

2018

  1. Patrick Deneen publishes Why Liberalism Failed

    Notre Dame political scientist Patrick Deneen published Why Liberalism Failed, a widely discussed critique that became a reference point for the postliberal movement; his 2023 Regime Change was presented as its more prescriptive follow-up (Public Seminar, Publishers Weekly).

    SourcesToward a postliberal future (Public Seminar)Regime Change: Towards a Post Liberal Future (Publishers Weekly)

2014

  1. The Josias, an English-language integralist website, is founded

    The Josias, a website devoted to Catholic integralism, was launched in 2014. The Austrian weekly Falter credits Cistercian monk Edmund Waldstein with founding it; the site says co-editor Urban Hannon was involved from its inception.

    SourcesWie ein österreichischer Mönch zum Stichwortgeber der US-Rechten wurde (Falter)New Editor of The Josias (The Josias)