I suppose it says something about David French that he finds himself surrounded by wildly divergent critics. It's not an altogether bad place to be. The 16th-century Reformers battled radical Protestant utopians trying at sword-point to usher in the new heavens and the new earth at the same time they battled Roman Catholic utopians who thought they already had. Strange bedfellows somehow have a habit of reuniting.
New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari, along with many at First Things magazine, now infamously thinks the problem with late-modern liberalism is people like David French who don't understand that the legal principles embodied in our liberal order are insufficient to a just and flourishing society.
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