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Two Cheers for Gregory’s Augustinian Civic Liberalism

May 18th, 2020 | 25 min read

By James Wood

In a recent essay, “Liberalism, the American Right, and the Place of Love in Politics,” Jake Meador attempts to move beyond the terms of the recent, ostensibly existential, debate within American conservatism. The opposition between libertarian proceduralism — represented by David French — and authoritarian integralism — represented by Sohrab Ahmari and Adrian Vermeule — is assessed by Meador as merely a new, and significantly devolved, iteration of a larger, decades-long debate within conservatism.

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James Wood

James R. Wood is Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University (Ancaster, ON). He is also a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, co-host of the Civitas podcast produced by the Theopolis Institute, co-host Mere Fidelity with Mere Orthodoxy, and former associate editor at First Things.