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Jake MeadorFeatured
To suggest that our nation's oppressed minorities have been faithful liberals, as Adam Serwer recently did, is a dramatic bit of historic revisionism.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
The use of power to advance defined ends is inherent in any political system. The post-liberals merely want to be honest about that and advance good ends.
Caleb Wait
Chris Arnade joins Andrew, Derek, and Alastair to talk about his new book, “Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America,” where he tells the stories of how America’s poor find dignity and identity in their forgotten communities. Timestamps: Intro + […]
Guest WriterFeatured
If you want to do something pointless and expensive, don't go to war with Iran. Just buy a sailboat, take it into Chesapeake Bay, and deliberately sink it.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
To coincide with the launch of "In Search of the Common Good" we're running a companion kit drawing for people who read and review the book.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
To coincide with the launch of "In Search of the Common Good" we're running a companion kit drawing for people who read and review the book.
Hannah AndersonFeatured
Dougherty's book is a triumph because it successfully disentangles true culture from kitsch, helping us identify what it is we ought to love in our homes.
Jake MeadorFeatured
One of the most important explorations of political theology in recent years is Andrew Willard Jones’s book Before Church and State. Jones’s argument is that our modern social norms, including our political system, are built on the idea that conflict […]
Jake MeadorPoliticsFeatured
Matthew Lee Anderson recently delivered three lectures at Biola University on justice which are now available online for viewing.
Susannah Black RobertsPolitics
Right. So this is a kind of complicated non-hot take spurred by Nicholas Kristof’s excellent and horrible piece in the Times today. Kristof is reporting from Guatemala, where almost half of all children are physically and mentally stunted because of […]
Susannah Black RobertsPolitics
Right. So this is a kind of complicated non-hot take spurred by Nicholas Kristof’s excellent and horrible piece in the Times today. Kristof is reporting from Guatemala, where almost half of all children are physically and mentally stunted because of […]
Guest WriterFeatured
For a political theology to actually be a Christian political theology it must have Christian ideas about ontology and teleology built into the system.