Category: Current Politics
Book Review: Reclaiming Hope by Michael Wear
In Reclaiming Hope Michael Wear has written an engaging, clarifying work that nevertheless fails because it does not properly distinguish between a person’s testimony and their political theology. As such, the book often begins well before veering off into needless ambiguity...
Lessons from the UK for American Evangelicals
You’ll have to forgive my sounding like something of a broken record by this point, but I couldn’t let this news pass without flagging it for Mere O readers:
On Ben Sasse, Civil Society, and Voting Records
Last week Matthew Walther went hard after one of my Senators, Ben Sasse, in a piece for The Week. The piece wandered a bit, but I basically agreed with it: It’s hard to make sense of Sasse as a politician because...
The Teddy Roosevelt Option: Ben Sasse’s Plan to Save the Country
Let’s get this out of the way right off: The Vanishing American Adult is not a political book. So says author Ben Sasse.
Will the Church Continue to Kill People with Hepatitis C?
Friends, There is an urgent soul-cry from the culture. From our neighbors. This cry has been silenced by the church and ignored by the media.
The Religious Right Is Not a Subsidiary of the Alt-Right
In a recent essay for The New Republic, religion reporter Sarah Posner contends that the Religious Right has “effectively become a subsidiary of the alt-right, yoked to Trump’s white nationalist agenda.” By effectively wedding themselves to Trump’s narrative about ‘American...
Do Evangelicals Actually Want an Originalist on the Supreme Court?
We’re pleased to publish this guest feature by Matt Mellema and Ian Speir. President Trump’s tapping of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court has won near-universal praise from the Religious Right. Gorsuch has been lauded as an articulate originalist,...
Forget Milo. Roger Scruton Can Make CPAC Great Again
We are pleased to publish this guest feature by Bryan Baise. On Monday, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) rescinded their invitation to Milo Yiannopoulos after a video recording emerged which many interpreted to be a defense of pedophilia. Milo has...
Attending to the Language: Trump and the GOP Leadership
In one of his books Christopher Hitchens advised his readers to always attend to the language used by the people they are studying or covering. The way the person uses language will often tell you things far more important than...
Climate change is political and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Donald Trump was sworn in as President at noon on Friday, January 20th. Within an hour, all references to climate change had been removed from the White House website. He has stacked key positions with outspoken climate change deniers, and...