Kevin Vallier’s All The Kingdoms of the World

For nearly a decade, a strain of political theology known as “integralism” was ascendant. Kevin Vallier’s All The Kingdoms of the World (2023) tells the story of integralism’s rising star and explores the limits of its case for illiberal political rule. In doing so, Vallier leveled integralism’s reputation as a coherent philosophical movement. 

Integralism, or the full integration of the Roman Catholic Church’s authority within our present political order, is an impossible and undesirable aspiration on this side of heaven.