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Joseph LaughonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Reviewing National Conservatism's Policy Agenda | Mere Orthodoxy

Oren Cass's "Once and Future Worker" is the most substantive policy vision offered by national conservatives so far and offers a striking, original vision.

Jane LewisFeatured

Back to the Sources: Notes on Chesterton the Historian | Mere Orthodoxy

Chesterton's critique of modernity was built on a close reading of primary historical sources and of the classic authors of the western church.

Caleb Wait

"Ending Overcriminalization and Mass Incarceration," with Dr. Anthony Bradley - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Justice issues are ever prevalent in modern society. Moreover, conversations around justice are often co-opted by overly simplistic solutions. Dr. Anthony Bradley (Professor of Religious Studies at The King’s College in New York City and Research Fellow at the Acton […]

JD FlynnFeatured

Ahmaud Arbery and 'National Conversations' | Mere Orthodoxy

In America we have predictable scripts for talking about stories of tragedy. Often, these scripts merely insulate us from the horror of the story itself.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Politics of Mask-Wearing | Mere Orthodoxy

To compare mask-wearing to duck-and-cover drills is to compare nuclear threats and a pandemic. But these are two dramatically different things.

Sebastian MilbankFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Populists and the Pandemic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently the world commemorated VE day, celebrating the vast global effort to defeat fascism, an inhuman ideology which sacrificed life on the altar of materialism. The Queen gave a speech to her quarantined subjects: declaring that ‘our streets are not […]

Jake MeadorChurchGenderSexuality

Summarizing the PCA Committee Report on Human Sexuality

This piece is a brief summary of the PCA's AIC report on sexuality

S. DormanFeatured

Deus Ex Machina Reversed | Mere Orthodoxy

We are not disoriented, not troubled, confused. We’ve had no blow to the head. We have arrived—not on horseback—to a secure, well-oriented, time.

Jake Meador

O'Donovan on the Secular - Commonplaces

This pairs very well with yesterday’s excerpt from Dawson. From Desire of the Nations:

Jake Meador

O'Donovan on the Secular - Commonplaces

This pairs very well with yesterday’s excerpt from Dawson. From Desire of the Nations:

Caleb Wait

The Struggle of Prayer - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matt, Derek, and Alastair discuss the struggles and misconceptions surrounding prayer: how prayer becomes burdensome, prayer as experiencing God in a veiled way, and what petitions in prayer should we not ask for? All of this and more. Timestamps: LIVE […]

Jake MeadorHistory

Christopher Dawson on Bourgeois Culture - Commonplaces

From “The Significance of Bolshevism” (written in 1933): Man cannot live in a spiritual void; he needs some fixed social standards and some absolute intellectual principles. Bolshevism at least replaces the spiritual anarchy of bourgeois society by a rigid order […]