INTRODUCTION
The projects advanced by Stephen Wolfe in The Case for Christian Nationalism (2022), Adrian Vermeule’s common-good constitutionalism (and its integralist underpinnings), and the older dominionist and reconstructionist strands associated with R.J. Rushdoony and Gary North deserve serious engagement. They are not crude theocratic fantasies but intellectually coherent attempts to diagnose liberalism’s failures and recover pre-liberal ways of ordering political life toward substantive goods. They are also, from the perspective of the civic republican tradition that shaped the American founding, fundamentally at odds with the architecture of non-domination the Founders constructed.
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