Chad Pecknold, associate professor, theology, published commentary on St. Augustine in the Catholic Herald (UK).
... Critics of liberalism are sometimes portrayed as fantasists, yearning for some lost medieval integralism of throne and altar. But as Professor Adrian Vermeule showed in his much-discussed article last week, that is unfair. There is no going back, and we have no choice but to chart new paths through the obstacles that arise ever anew. Vermeule is a realist who recognises that we cannot rely on the failed strategies of accommodation to an increasingly aggressive and illiberal liberalism. ...