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Notes on the Orbanism Essay

August 3rd, 2022 | 9 min read

By Jake Meador

One common question that’s come up since the Orbanism piece on the main site is one that I tried to anticipate in the essay itself: Is the Augustinian liberal strategy naive? Or, put another way, does it matter if liberalism survives? Should we just give it up, since so many already clearly have, and try to pick the least bad option of the various illiberal choices on offer?

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.