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Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

Challenges to Liberalism in the Post-Trump Era

Key stressors pressing the American Right and Left have pushed both blocs into complex and frequently hostile relationships to political liberalism.

Jonathan CioranCulturePolitical Theory

Iron Sky: Peter Thiel and the Rise of Gay Space Fascism

The most likely ideology to define the future of the American right is the anti-democratic technophilia of tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theory

After Progressive Neo-Liberalism: What comes next?

The era of progressive neoliberalism seems well and truly over. What comes next could be better, but there are no guarantees.

Myles WerntzPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

Why You Shouldn't Burn It All Down

Discontent with technology is a thorny briar patch with weird friends. We ask questions about what is to be done, if blowing it all up isn’t an option.

Brad LittlejohnPolitical TheoryBook Reviews

Political Freedom Between Right and Rights

A political order built on rights without any account of the right will with time devolve into contradiction and incoherence.

Myles WerntzPolitical Theory

Beginning Again With Power: The Problem of Bureaucracy

The most useful image for understanding our current political moment is not 'empire' but rather 'bureaucracy.'

Brad LittlejohnPolitical Theory

Rediscovering Political Authority in an Age of Expertise

The confusion of authority and expertise, with the simplistic accounts of authority such a confusion implies, lies near the heart of our political chaos.

Nathan GuyPolitical Theory

The Search for Human Dignity

Maintaining our hold on liberal ideas about human dignity without their intellectual foundations in Christianity is proving to be difficult.

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.

Benjamin SaundersPolitical TheoryLaw

The Role of the Civil Government in Making Laws

Because Scripture isn't written as a manual for creating the perfect civil society, we must exercise care in defining what the Bible teaches about law.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

What Do We Have That's Good?

Recently NS Lyons denied that the liberal order follows the rule of law, yet his speech only happened because liberals followed the rule of law.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

Liberalism Wins

It is remarkable how quickly one can become a liberal when one is threatened and an appeal to liberal rights might help you.