Challenges to Liberalism in the Post-Trump Era

March 6th, 2025 | 4 min read

One of the most basic and pressing problems for those of us seeking to reckon with the unavoidable pluralism of our moment is that the political method most conducive to that task—some species of liberalism—is now widely demeaned on both the right and left.

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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, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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Challenges to Liberalism in the Post-Trump Era

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