You Can't Separate Politics and Theology

There was a curious entry to these pages on Monday. Emma Ayers, managing editor of the libertarian outfit Young Voices, offered her two cents on last Thursday's debate between the New York Post's Sohrab Ahmari and National Review's David French, cleverly coined the "Melee at CUA" by the latter. As Matthew Walther has observed over at The Week, most normal Americans spent their Thursday evening watching a dominating performance by the Green Bay Packers' defense in the NFL opener. But the CUA event has nonetheless sparked strong and varied reaction across the conservative commentariat. That's because, contrary to Ayers' contention that it was a "pointless display," it got to the fundamental question for the future of the political right in the Trump era.