Tag: Politics
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Free Trade vs. Free Markets: Will the Real Capitalism Please Stand Up?
Many people, especially young people, who critique capitalism have no idea what capitalism is. Capitalism is just freedom in the economic sphere. It’s just freely buying and selling. The only way to set a just price is to find one the buyer and seller agree upon. If someone with power – the state – tells…
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Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement — A Few Notes and Questions
These are some notes from a while back, prepared for a discussion of Caldwell’s book: This is a compelling book. It’s straight forward and ruthless in its analysis. I thought his assessment of Reagan was harsh but probably fair overall – Reagan had some great rhetoric about limited government but did not have the nerve to…
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The National Association of Evangelicals and Christian Nationalism
Tell me about the National Association of Evangelicals proposing an amendment acknowledging the lordship of Christ over America in the 1950s. AI answers: Yes, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) supported efforts in the late 1940s and 1950s to promote a constitutional amendment that would explicitly acknowledge the authority and lordship of Jesus Christ over…
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Christian Nationalism: Towards a Definition and Taxonomy
There are at least 4 different definitions of Christian nationalism floating around so I want to provide something of a taxonomy for the discussion: First, the progressive definition. Progressives treat “Christian nationalism” as synonymous with racism/white supremacy, fascism, Nazism, religious coercion, etc. Of course, this is how progressives have labeled all conservatives for a long…
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Do Conservative Christians Care for the Poor?
Tim Keller and other politically left-leaning Christian leaders have perpetuated the progressive myth that right-leaning Christians do not care for the poor. Actually, studies show that evangelicals, particularly Southern evangelicals, are the most generous and philanthropic group in America. See here (https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics-on-u-s-generosity/) on giving by states based on percentage of AGI – other than Utah…
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Note on Ecclesiocentric Christian Nationalism: A Discussion in the Early Stages
What is “Christian nationalism”? There are many varieties floating around, but here’s my stab at it. While Stephen Wolfe may have made the label prominent with his book, this is a much wider discussion. Megachurch pastors like Josh Howerton are using the label and defining carefully what they mean by it. Howerton has 25k+ in…
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American Public Schools and the Soviet Strategy
If you were the communist leadership of the Soviet Union, and your goal was to eliminate religion from a country of 100 million people, how would you do it? You can’t really force people to stop being religious—because history shows that when you try to coerce religious people into abandoning their faith, you often make…
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The Folly of Women in Combat: A Parable of Moral and Cultural Decline
The drive to place women in combat is not an advance of civilization but a mark of its decay. It reveals a society that no longer knows what a woman is, what a man is, or why those differences once mattered. The story begins in 1978, when female sailors sued the U.S. Navy for the…
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The Vibe Keeps Shifting: Charlie Kirk’s Martyrdom, Fighting to Win, and What Comes Next
[A version of this article will appear in The Federalist soon.] Can you feel it? The winds have shifted. The vibe has shifted. Suddenly all the cultural momentum is on the right. That doesn’t mean it will stay shifted; culture is fickle, and it could shift back leftward at some point. The vibe shift does…
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Turning Point?
At our weekly Wednesday vespers service last night, I took the opportunity to say a few words about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Some of that is reproduced here. I have not followed Charlie’s work closely all that long, but I have been greatly impressed by him, especially as it was obvious that he had…
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