John Inazu’s book Confident Pluralism is a helpful text that provides readers with both a legal explanation of how a pluralistic society would function politically and a clear statement about the sort of character needed to make a pluralistic society work. It is no surprise, then, that the book has received such enthusiastic praise from so many. Though it came out before books like The Benedict Option and Out of the Ashes, one of the things many have taken from the book is that it is a response to the pessimism of Dreher, Esolen, and others of similar mind. Inazu’s book is quite good. But to construe it as a rebuttal to Dreher and others is to misrepresent what he is doing.
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