“Red Tories” and Eugenics

Among the theological sophisticates these days, a new type of theological politics is starting to gain favor. It’s known, in Britain and Canada at least, as “Red Toryism,” supposedly combining the best virtues of the European conservative tradition with a concern for the social dimensions of human political and economic culture, a concern that presumably short-circuits the socialist critique of the conservative tradition

The primary exponent of this new theological politics in Britain is Phillip Blond, who was widely considered by pundits before the most recent elections in Britain to be David Cameron’s political guru. Cameron heads the new “conservative” coalition government in Britain. Blond himself is generally associated with the so-called radical orthodoxy of John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock which, as David has argued on this blog, is in fact quite radically unorthodox. The radically (un)orthodox are basically as libertine as it comes in matters sexual, no less than the Corinthians to whom Paul preached conversion.

Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that the new “conservative coalition” in Britain is pushing an internationalist eugenics program that rivals anything that we saw in the 20th century, or among the immediate predecessors to the Cameron government in Britain.

The Anglophone world has been a great source of evil in the world in this regard, for well over a century now. One can hardly imagine anything coming out of this world, operating from within its own nominalist premises, that might shift the balance in a more virtuous direction. The British Empire is not dead, unfortunately. They still have far too much money to work with. One can hardly speak with any more assurance of the American Empire.