St. Augustine and the Benedict Option

What are we to make of the Benedict Option proposed by Rod Dreher? Some years ago I wrote a book which examined, among other things, a similar idea from an American academic called Hugo Tristam Englehardt, who advocated the foundation of what he called “moral exclaves”. I was not convinced by Englehardt, whose books I have read, and I am not convinced by what I read of Dreher now.