Category Archives: Politics

Answering Some Objections About Christian Nationalism

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Matt

The nice part about having something up on the Federalist is all the feedback you get.  The bad part, of course, is the nature of 90% of that feedback.  But as per my custom, here are my responses to the … Continue reading →

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Can Government Be Religiously Neutral?

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Matt

I take on that question in a new piece at The Federalist today: The First Amendment forbids the establishment of a state church in the United States, but it in no way imposes the incoherent burden of religious neutrality on our civic … Continue reading →

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The Obsolescence of Racism

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Matt

My high school days are far enough in the past that they still assigned Shakespeare to students back then. I read Romeo & Juliet freshman year, and remember laughing with my friends about the whole “do you bite your thumb … Continue reading →

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Ending the Equality Lie

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Matt

It seems that the US women’s soccer team has been making a big stink about the wage gap because they make less the men’s team–as though men’s soccer doesn’t generate an order of magnitude more revenue than women’s. As I’ve … Continue reading →

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Reparations Enslave the Insufficiently Intersectional

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Matt

There are lots of problems with reparations for slavery. There’s little justice to be found in punishing the descendants of slave-holders and rewarding the descendants of slaves 150 years after the fact. The fact that race is always the proposed … Continue reading →

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Disgusting Things Ought to Disgust Us

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Matt

About a year ago, I came across a rather nasty news story about a house in Iowa. Neighbors were complaining about the smell and eventually the police were called to investigate. As it turns out, there were dozens of cats … Continue reading →

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A Self-Imposed Poverty of Identity

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Matt

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to identity lately–specifically because of the way America and other Western nations are shattering into a million different special interest groups. Multiculturalism is part of that, of course, but it’s hardly the whole problem. … Continue reading →

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Conclusion of Between Babel & Pentecost: A Christian Analysis of Multiculturalism

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Matt

The conclusion of “Between Babel & Pentecost” in which we consider some of the lessons learned from our analysis of multiculturalism:

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Part 5 of Between Babel & Pentecost: A Christian Analysis of Multiculturalism

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Matt

Now that we’ve spent some time considering the Tower of Babel, Pentecost, and the political ideologies of multiculturalism and globalism, it’s finally time to answer the question at the heart of this series:   Is a Christian nation obligated to be … Continue reading →

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Between Babel & Pentecost: A Christian Analysis of Multiculturalism – Part 4

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Matt

Here’s the latest installment in my series on multiculturalism.   This time, we’re getting political–with the twin ideologies of multiculturalism and globalism up for a critical examination.  

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