Illiberal Integralist Elites

Integralism is a tradition of thought that, aside from “rejecting the liberal separation of politics from concern with the end of human life,” struggles mightily to define itself. Beyond this one point, it is extremely unclear what it means to be an integralist. This is not to say that individual integralists do not have in mind any policies they would endorse on the basis of their integralist principles. Rather, the generic characterization of integralism itself, as nothing more than a commitment to the ideal that “political rule must order man to his final goal,” leaves the integralist ideal underspecified.