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David BeauchampFeaturedCurrent Politics

How Should Christians Respond to the Coronavirus? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?” So he answered and […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Nations and Nation-States: A Question for National Conservatives - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We need a theory of power to support conservative localism. But that theory cannot consist of simply pretending that nation-states are an unambiguous good.

Samuel JamesFeaturedCurrent Politics

Dwyane Wade's Selective Essentialism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Dwyane Wade’s enthusiasm for his child’s gender transition offers a fascinating example of transgender ideology’s selective performativity. Wade’s 12-year-old son, born Zion, recently announced he wanted to be referred to as a “she.” During an appearance on Ellen, Wade discussed […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Key Question the Sanders Campaign Must Answer | Mere Orthodoxy

By the end of the Democratic primary we are likely going to be far closer to knowing if ours is a revolutionary age or merely an era of stable decadence.

Gracy OlmsteadFeaturedCreation CareCurrent Politics

Why Protecting Rivers is a Conservative Cause | Mere Orthodoxy

Clean drinking water is a good worth protecting—even if it means one less suburb, or a few more regulations for oil and gas companies.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Democrats (Probably) Won't Outflank Themselves | Mere Orthodoxy

Running a leftist campaign may not be electoral suicide; it may be a reasoned choice based on a belief that political persuasion is still possible.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Liberty of a Christian in a Democratic Age | Mere Orthodoxy

Schmitz argues that democracies force their members to choose between liberty and Christianity. Historic Protestantism says this is a false dichotomy.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

There is No Wealth but Life: Rootedness in an Orphaned World

Any social program that attempts to chart the way through late liberalism that doesn't foreground the goodness of life will fail in its aims.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Failed Attempt to Reset the Nationalism Debate | Mere Orthodoxy

Werntz's essay rightly foregrounds the centrality of economics in understanding nations, but its treatment of economic injustice is reductionistic.

Susannah Black RobertsFeaturedCurrent Politics

Moldbug through the Looking Glass | Mere Orthodoxy

Far from being an anti-liberal of any sort, Mencius Moldbug is actually a more perfect liberal because he has actually and completely denatured politics.

Nathan Luis CartagenaFeaturedCurrent Politics

Suffering Our Forefathers’ Sins: A Latino’s Reflection on White Supremacy

The definition of "whiteness" has been hotly contested ever since Iberian slave traders first began using the concept over 500 years ago.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Against the Political Atheists: On the Safety of the Dead Consensus

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.