I do not believe, however, that classical liberalism merits our hope, founded on individualistic and ultimately false Enlightenment anthropologies as it is. By aiming towards the cultivation of Autonomous Man and stripping him of his fundamental relationality and embeddedness in communities prior to the modern State, such anthropologies open the door to dependence on the only legitimate “community” in liberalism (whether progressive or classical): the State, which is legitimate above all because it has Power to control and manage autonomous individuals by imposing its supposedly non-moral “pragmatic” designs.

But you likely have a different understanding of classical liberalism than I.

A better, trinitarian approach, in my view, would be a true conservatism–rather than a classical, i.e. conservative liberalism–which recognizes a prior relational order in creation in which man participates not as a creature that primarily Wills or Reasons, but as a creature that fundamentally Loves.

I like your rhetoric. Seriously. I do. You call a spade a spade. In today’s climate calling a spade a spade qualifies for a medal of honor.