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Jake MeadorHistoryBook ReviewsPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda IV - Commonplaces

The whole chapter on nationalism is fascinating reading, especially if the main forms of nationalism you’re familiar with are European forms or the muddled thing we have here in America. African nationalism, this explosive force which has changed the shape […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook ReviewsPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda IV - Commonplaces

The whole chapter on nationalism is fascinating reading, especially if the main forms of nationalism you’re familiar with are European forms or the muddled thing we have here in America. African nationalism, this explosive force which has changed the shape […]

Jake MeadorHistoryPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda III - Commonplaces

It’s from 1966 and Zambia but, dang, if parts of this don’t map eerily well onto the “racial reconciliation” discourse. It is truly tragic the fear which has been engendered in European minds because they now find themselves ruled by […]

Jake MeadorHistoryPan-AfricanismKenneth Kaunda

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Kenneth Kaunda III - Commonplaces

It’s from 1966 and Zambia but, dang, if parts of this don’t map eerily well onto the “racial reconciliation” discourse. It is truly tragic the fear which has been engendered in European minds because they now find themselves ruled by […]

Miles SmithPoliticsFeaturedHistory

The Danger of Forgetting America's Anti-Racist History - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Jake Meador has offered a thoughtful and challenging piece concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States. Meador’s most salient point is that he has “become very suspicious of accounts of Christianity’s place in American life that leave out […]

Ashley HalesFeaturedHistoryJournalJournal 2

Who is This New Man? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The rubber band of our American common life is stretched to breaking.[1] Our connections are tenuous, our politics polarizing, and our sense of civic housekeeping — where we provide for others for the common good — seems like a foreign […]

David MooreFeaturedHistory

The Transcendentalists and Their World - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Robert A. Gross is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. His widely regarded book, The Minutemen and Their World won the Bancroft Prize. The following interview revolves around […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation

the liberal order and its haters - Doctors Without Boredom

What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation

the liberal order and its haters - Doctors Without Boredom

What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.

Jake MeadorHistoryChurch

The Bavinck Turn - Commonplaces

In his (excellent) biography of Bavinck, James Eglinton notes a shift that happened in the great Dutch theologian around the turn of the century. Earlier in his career, Bavinck was deeply concerned with the project of reinvigorating Calvinism in the […]

Jake MeadorHistoryChurch

The Bavinck Turn - Commonplaces

In his (excellent) biography of Bavinck, James Eglinton notes a shift that happened in the great Dutch theologian around the turn of the century. Earlier in his career, Bavinck was deeply concerned with the project of reinvigorating Calvinism in the […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

patriotism good, nationalism bad? - Doctors Without Boredom

Nationalism may not be the boogeyman you want it to be, but it might be the petard which by nationalists are hoisting themselves.