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Honesty and Extremism

February 7th, 2020 | 6 min read

By Jake Meador

I’m reading a book right now recently published by a prominent conservative publishing house. I’m not going to name the author or the book for the moment because I’m not yet sure how I want to handle the book more generally. I will say he’s a respected conservative academic whose past work I have found helpful and engaging. For now, I want to draw attention to one particular issue with the book.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.