Jake Meador

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Jake Meador

In their article on the six-way fracturing of evangelicalism, Michael Graham and Skyler Flowers observed that there was a type of left wing exvangelical—a "five" in their schema—who had left the church, but still in some way tried to preserve their proximity to Jesus. This isn't a terribly surprising thing, of course: the attempt to adopt a kind of a la carte spirituality is quite old.

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Jake Meador

At risk of understatement, it seems near certain that the age of progressive neo-liberalism is dead and buried. The political ideology that largely defined and shaped America's political life and society from the end of the Cold War to the present seems now to be a truly spent political and cultural force. The question facing us now is what comes after the whirlwind currently smashing it. Whatever the answer, in the short-term future it won't come from the left.

Jan 22, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Michael Warren |Michael Reneau |Jake Meador

The president made a series of claims that were either false or missing context. Published January 22, 2025 President Donald Trump outlined his vision for his second presidential term Monday in the longest inaugural speech by word count since Herbert Hoover’s address in 1929. However, Trump’s 2,885-word speech included claims that were inaccurate or misleading on immigration, energy and environmental policy, tariffs and international trade, and the Panama Canal.

Jan 19, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Jake Meador |Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg

Published January 19, 2025 Ecstatic for the Biden administration to be coming to an end? Dreading Donald Trump’s return to the White House? Join Steve Hayes, Sarah Isgur, Mike Warren, David Drucker, and more of your Dispatch favorites for a discussion of Monday’s inauguration festivities. What is Joe Biden’s legacy? What kind of tone did Trump try to strike in his inaugural address—and will it last? What executive orders can we expect in the next few days?

Jan 13, 2025 | mereorthodoxy.com | Jake Meador

Last week Canadian apologist Wesley Huff went on the Joe Rogan Experience, the world's biggest podcast. Huff was on the show due to a debate he had done with a kind of self-taught new age guru named Billy Carson who, amongst other things, claimed that Jesus was never crucified. So he got on for a conversation with Huff about that and... well, it ended with Carson sending a cease-and-desist letter to Huff threatening him with legal action if the video was released.