Tag: Election 2016
Choose: A Republic or “A Basket of Deplorables”
One of the smarter critiques of today’s American liberalism is that it’s actually mainline Protestantism shorn of its explicitly Christian content. Former First Things editor Jody Bottum makes this critique in his book An Anxious Age but others have made...
The Nine Constellations of Donald Trump
I’m pleased to publish this guest post from first time Mere O contributor Michael Graham. It’s a nice complement to this older piece by Alastair Roberts. Both pieces in different ways explain why Donald Trump has become the Republican nominee...
One Third Party Evangelicals Should Look at Seriously: The American Solidarity Party
For pro-life Christians who want the nation’s highest office to defend the unborn, the pickings are grim. Really, for citizens of any religious persuasion who hold to any sort of principle besides “power at any cost”, the major-party choices for...
There is no Pro-Life Case for Donald Trump
We are now in the 12th hour of the conservatism’s life in this election cycle, which means it is as good a time as any to revisit the question of how I plan to proceed through American political life over...
The Worst Way to View Our Politics
I’m pleased to welcome a new guest writer, Donald Norman, to Mere O today. By now most Christians have thought about the “lesser of two evils” voting strategy: “I can’t vote for Trump. He’s too [fill in the blank]. But,...
Blame Jacques Derrida for Donald Trump.
I’m pleased to run this guest piece by S.D. Kelly, particularly given the direction the Trump campaign has gone in the past week. A dozen years after his death, the ideas promoted by the historian and philosopher Jacques Derrida still...
Of Jayber Crow and Donald Trump
In his novel Jayber Crow Wendell Berry raises the question of how a person can love and give themselves to something that is dying. Throughout the novel, Crow, the book’s protagonist, reflects on his life in Port William, a small Kentucky...
Against Donald Trump: Why Evangelicals Must Not Support Trump
The rise of Donald Trump among some evangelicals is an understandable, even if unsettling phenomenon. The alienation and despair that he has both fostered and exploited is a pervasive feature of some corners of American life. But no one is...