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January 22, 2020|Catholicism, Constitutionalism, Evangelicals

Conservative Constitutionalism beyond Originalism

by George Thomas|

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Ken Kersch draws on capacious understandings of the Constitution that are not well known outside of what became the Christian right.

January 22, 2020|Conservatives, Evangelicals, Harry Jaffa, Originalism, Straussians

Mapping the Terrain of Conservative Constitutionalism

by Ken I. Kersch|

Prof. Hadley Arkes delivers the 2017 Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles at Princeton University's James Madison Program (James Madison Program)
The cause of the Founders has been hitched to those strains of conservatism that have long been aching for a twilight struggle and a Holy War.

November 6, 2018|Abortion, bigotry, civil right movement, Evangelicals, Johnson Amendment, Katherine Stewart

Why We Should be Grateful to Religious Groups at Election Time

by John O. McGinnis|

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The New York Times' Katherine Stewart misreads Christian churches' role in American politics: they pursue not nationalism, but a view of the good.

January 4, 2018|church, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, G.K. Chesterton, nones, religious identity, Ross Douthat

Evangelicals and the Challenge of Moral Education

by James R. Rogers|

In many senses the Evangelical movement has been wildly successful, but today's churches face an unexpected challenge in moral education.

July 18, 2017|Evangelicals, La Civiltà Cattolica, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism

Spadaro and Figueroa’s “Ecumenism of Hate”

by James R. Rogers|

Archbishop Coleridge of Brisbane holds La Civilta Cattolica before meeting of Pontifical Council for Social Communications at Vatican

Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa’s article, “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism: A Surprising Ecumenism,” in La Civiltà Cattolica (described by Spadaro as a “peer-reviewed magazine” whose “articles are always read and approved by the [Vatican’s] Secretariat of State”) is a bungled opportunity. The stark Manichean colors with which they paint their subject, and the apocalyptic tones they sound, combined with a muddled understanding of different currents in American evangelicalism, obscures rather than illuminates their argument.

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November 11, 2016|Employment Division v. Smith, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestantism, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court

No Protestants on the Bench

by Mark L. Movsesian|

As it does every year, a new Supreme Court term has begun in Washington. This time, however, the Court’s composition is a bit unusual. At the moment, the Court has only eight members; a successor for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in February, has not yet been appointed. But the Court’s composition is unusual for another reason, too: the religious backgrounds of the justices.

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July 7, 2014|An Anxious Age, Catholicism, Evangelicals, Mainline Protestantism

America Adrift

by Thomas Kidd|

For Joseph Bottum, America is a nation adrift. Historically, he says in An Anxious Age, American culture has been like a sturdy stool standing on the three legs of capitalism, democracy, and religion (especially Mainline Protestantism). The first two legs supplied entrepreneurial vigor and buy-in from “the people,” but Christianity gave America moral guidance and a sense of national mission. That three-legged stool served America well until about fifty years ago, when Mainline Protestantism began a protracted, massive decline. Not that the spirit of the Mainline has left us, Bottum notes. Secular elites and the Mainline’s remaining representatives (one might cite…

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Book Reviews

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.

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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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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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