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Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Though Ahmari obviously lost the debate, French's comments raise major questions as to whether or not he has a positive vision for nations.
Jake MeadorEconomicshealth
The reality of local political authority? Si. The de facto abolition of the administrative state? No.
Jake MeadorChurch
Most deconversion narratives shouldn't surprise us because we are living through a time of widespread decline and failure in the American church.
Jake MeadorBooks
Brad East has what is perhaps my favorite response to the book so far, not least because it is one of the more critical responses, for which I am thankful. You can read the whole thing over at Resident Theologian.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Every society will be ordered to a higher good. If political systems themselves do not participate in the work, it will simply be taken over by capital.
Jake Meador
In his book The World Beyond Your Head Matthew Crawford uses the idea of a jig to explain how a carpenter might go about accomplishing a task more quickly and efficiently. Jigs are a kind of hack, a method for doing […]
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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.
Jake MeadorBooks
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 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.
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That is the claim made by Dan Hugger in a recent post at the Acton Institute. Hugger, picking up on the French-Ahmari debate, argued that my framing of the debate—that liberalism ultimately fails because it both relies on other social […]
