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Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
The promise and hope that came with early forms of disenchantment have given way to a sense of despair.
Paul FineHistoryCurrent Politics
A survey of post-war American Christian nationalism suggests that that era's cultural Christianity quickly gave way to vague spiritual-not-religiousism.
Steven WedgeworthHistoryLiteratureCurrent Politics
That great quote you want to put to work on social media might not mean what you think it means.
Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics
Preserving American liberalism will almost certainly require us to think of liberalism not as an ideology but as a political method.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Arguments from despair become an easy way of suspending one's ordinary judgment or of tacitly coercing someone into an irrational change of mind.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
If you are a Christian seeking a culture of life and justice and you support a politician in exchange for... nothing, well, nothing is what you'll receive.
Elizabeth SticeCurrent PoliticsBook Reviews
The priorities and concerns that animated Augustine's political thought are often quite foreign to us today, which is what makes him a valuable guide.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
There is a reason the 'these are weird people' line has worked so well for Democrats. It would behoove traditionalist Christians to understand that reason.
Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
Our striver class lacks outlets and so slides toward decadence. The solution will be, at least in part, a moral awakening, a remembering of grace.
John SheltonCurrent Politics
So far post-liberal control of the GOP has coincided with the party's abandonment of social conservatives and embrace of barstool conservatism.
Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent Politics
As long as right wing media is defined by network characteristics rather than institutional traits it will be impotent in the world of policy and politics.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Virtually all the great natural joys of my life come to me because of my home place in America and because America is first of all an idea and a dream.