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Greg Forster is a visiting assistant professor of faith and culture at Trinity International University, the author of seven books and numerous articles, and co-editor of four books. He has a Ph.D. from Yale University and serves as the director of the Oikonomia Network.

January 11, 2019|Catholicism, empire, Erastianism, Nationalism, Protestantism, Yoram Hazony

Protestant Theology and Nations as Moral Communities

by Greg Forster|

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Is Nationalism really a unique construction of Protestant theology as Yoram Hazony claims?

December 5, 2018|Conservatism, Fusionism, nostalgia, Whittaker Chambers

The Right After Fusionism, Part 3: Whittaker Chambers and the Nostalgic Temptation

by Greg Forster|

Whittaker Chambers sits during the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss (Getty Images).

It is not surprising, that some have set out to put the problem of moral formation at the center of the Right’s future, but they must avoid nostalgia.

November 28, 2018|economics, free trade, Fusionism, Libertarianism, Nationalism, Whittaker Chambers

The Right after Fusionism, Part 2: Whittaker Chambers and the Economic Temptation

by Greg Forster|

Whittaker Chambers testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1948).

Economic liberalism need not settle the question of who God is and what God has said and done, but it must at least recognize man's religious nature.

November 20, 2018|Fusionism, National Review, Nationalism, Whittaker Chambers, William F. Buckley

The Right after Fusionism, Part 1: Whittaker Chambers and the Nationalist Temptation

by Greg Forster|

Whittaker Chambers testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee on Aug. 25, 1948 (Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo / Library of Congress).

The moral formation upon which markets depend is always connected to local loyalties, but this doesn't mean we should turn to nationalism.

August 8, 2018|Conservatism, Conservative Movement, National Review, Odyssey of a Friend, Whittaker Chambers, William Buckley, Witness

Whittaker Chambers and the Crisis of American Conservatism

by Greg Forster|

Whittaker Chambers testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1948).

Chambers’ perspective – in Witness and in his letters to Buckley – helps explain why American conservatism was good and why it has become dysfunctional.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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