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Jake MeadorEconomics

The Quiet Centrality of Market States - Commonplaces

Somewhat improbably, the reformist Republican critique of market-states may actually be more trenchant than the moderate Democratic critique.

Casey ShuttFeaturedEducation

Violent Schools in a Violent World | Mere Orthodoxy

The problem for our schools is a flawed telos that is too much in step with the cadence of the wild. An essentially violent world begets violent schools.

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Heroes of the Fourth Turning: the Possession of American Conservatism - Radio Free Thulcandra

So I saw it, because that is the Rule, and also because there was this period of time a couple of weeks ago when my fellow commune member Sarah Bailey was texting me on an hourly basis to see whether […]

Caleb Wait

New Christian Zionism with Dr. Gerald McDermott - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Is there a theological system that includes future promises regarding Israel that is not dispensational? Dr. Gerald McDermott is here to introduce Derek and Alastair to ‘New Christian Zionism.’   Timestamps: Announcement for a live meetup at ETS in San […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Democrats (Probably) Won't Outflank Themselves | Mere Orthodoxy

Running a leftist campaign may not be electoral suicide; it may be a reasoned choice based on a belief that political persuasion is still possible.

E. J. HutchinsonFeatured

How Melanchthon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jesus

There are no extra points for thanking God for the salvation offered to us in Christ in meter; but there is extra pleasure.

Scott BeauchampFeatured

An Intercourse with Ghosts: The Unabomber, Irony, and Terror

1. To write about Theodore J. Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, is to sit for a moment with the ghosts of his victims peering over your shoulder. The dead and the maimed, both. Just as much as you try to […]

Zack HolbrookFeatured

Guide Us Home: A Review of "On the Road with Saint Augustine"

This is the lesson of Jamie Smith’s book: we are never not on the road. But it is not just any road we are called to; it is the Way.

Caleb Wait

From Jacob to Israel - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Break out your bibles and join Alastair, Derek, and Matt for an old fashion bible study of Genesis 32:22-32, the story of Jacob’s name change. Why does Jacob demand the name of the one he wrestles? Why do later scriptures […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Welcome to the Hotel California: Bronze Age Pervert Amongst the Claremonsters - Radio Free Thulcandra

I’ll just say, I did call it. BAP has appeared— memeless, if not maskless — in the pages of The American Mind. His critiques of the left are fair. But his description of the range of choices in public philosophy […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Welcome to the Hotel California: Bronze Age Pervert Amongst the Claremonsters - Radio Free Thulcandra

I’ll just say, I did call it. BAP has appeared— memeless, if not maskless — in the pages of The American Mind. His critiques of the left are fair. But his description of the range of choices in public philosophy […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Reformation Day and the Waning of the Western Church

The Reformation was not only concerned with theological reform, but also moral reform. It called a decadent church, choking on its own power, to repent.