The rise and fall of Hungary’s Viktor Orban: A lesson for all Christians about putting your hope in politics

How much hope—and what kind of hope—ought Christians to invest in politics? And what lessons ought they learn from the inevitable failure of politics to fully realize those hopes? The recent electoral defeat of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, seen by many as a repudiation of his illiberal politics, offers a caution not only to those who had confidently predicted the failure of liberalism but also to those who celebrate its staying power.

We recently commemorated the seventh anniversary of the death of the Jesuit priest James V. Schall. His life’s scholarly work can be summarized as an attempt to place

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