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Miles SmithCurrent PoliticsFormation

Perdition

American evangelicals have lost all sense of the 'tragic' and the movement is being consumed as a result.

Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics

The False Promise of Disenchantment

The promise and hope that came with early forms of disenchantment have given way to a sense of despair.

Paul FineHistoryCurrent Politics

The “New” Christian Nationalism

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

Beware the Great Quote

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

Saving Liberalism Requires Better Liberals

Preserving American liberalism will almost certainly require us to think of liberalism not as an ideology but as a political method.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Argument for Despair is Impenetrable

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

Evangelicals for Harris and the Culture of Death

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

Finding Ourselves in Augustine's "City of God"

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

The Meaning of "Weird"

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

Misreading Hamilton and 'Hamilton'

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

When The Resistance Comes To Rule: J. D. Vance and the Apotheosis of Postliberal Politics

So far post-liberal control of the GOP has coincided with the party's abandonment of social conservatives and embrace of barstool conservatism.

John SheltonCurrent Politics

When The Resistance Comes To Rule: J. D. Vance and the Apotheosis of Postliberal Politics

So far post-liberal control of the GOP has coincided with the party's abandonment of social conservatives and embrace of barstool conservatism.