The Archive
Jake MeadorEconomics and Business
As traditional structures for financing journalistic work fail, we cannot only ask how to pay for journalism, we must also ask how we to train journalists.
Chris KrychoTechnologyWriting
This American Life is a great podcast. But it's an example of good podcasting, not the standard for judging all podcasts.
Miles SmithHistory
Nancy Isenberg's excellent book "White Trash" is a helpful corrective to many mistaken ideas evangelicals have about America and the white working class.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
The questions that a decision to endorse Trump raises cannot simply be limited to his character or to political prudence.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Is there anyone evangelicals shouldn't support if he will help us with the Supreme Court? Is there any sin that would make them unelectable to evangelicals?
Matthew Lee Anderson
The incomparable Karen Swallow Prior joins Matt, Alastair, and Derek for a serious conversation on the uses and abuses of satire. Jonathan Swift’s famous essay “A Modest Proposal” makes an appearance, of course. But so does this analysis of ‘punching up’ […]
Matthew LoftusCurrent Politics
Matthew Loftus takes a closer look at the platform of a new third party in American politics, the Solidarity Party.
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCulture War
Social Conservatism talks a loud game but actually has little confidence. Social conservatives should try to recover it strategically.
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCulture War
Social conservatism needs to recover its intellectual creativity by being willing to question its own first principles.
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
This week, Matt returns to the show and foists his questions about our current populist movements upon his reluctant dialogue partners Andrew and Alastair. Hilarity ensues. If you enjoyed the
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCulture War
Social conservatives tend to be hostile toward elites. That needs to end if the movement is going to thrive.
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Social conservatism's future is uncertain. This is the first of four theses on how it should relate to culture.