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3 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Bill Drexel |Paul Miller |Joseph Roche
Hi and happy Sunday. With India’s importance in geopolitics rising—perhaps in no small part to its charismatic leader, Narendra Modi—it may be easy to assume the Hindu nationalist political project he has become the leader of is something akin to Christian nationalist movements in the U.S. That’s not the case, the Hudson Institute’s Bill Drexel writes in today’s Dispatch Faith.
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4 weeks ago | 
thedispatch.com | Jeremiah Johnson |Michael Reneau |Paul Miller |Nick Catoggio
Politics is about changing the world. To change the world, you need power so you can implement the policies you think will help people. And to win power, you need to be able to get votes. All this is fairly obvious, but we live in a political era where obvious and true things bear repeating. So allow me to state the obvious once more: To win votes, you can’t have wildly different views from the public. That’s a lesson Democrats seem to have forgotten.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Paul Miller |Rachael Larimore |Jonah Goldberg
Religion Plus: A century of Flannery O’Connor. By and Published March 23, 2025 Happy Sunday. One of the recurring themes around The Dispatch is that in any debate (politics, culture, religion, economics), the most extreme voices are often wrong. Perhaps they’re wrong honestly, but often because they’re being duplicitous. And throwing our lot in with a particular faction solely out of fear of the other side usually ends badly.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Paul Miller |Joseph Roche |Iryna Matviyishyn
Happy Sunday. One of the recurring themes around The Dispatch is that in any debate (politics, culture, religion, economics), the most extreme voices are often wrong. Perhaps they’re wrong honestly, but often because they’re being duplicitous. And throwing our lot in with a particular faction solely out of fear of the other side usually ends badly.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | James Sutton |Paul Miller |Alexander William Salter |Hannah Anderson
On a sunny day in October I was showing two Australian friends visiting the United States for the first time around the National Mall. After we passed the Vietnam Memorial, we were greeted by a very strange sight. Ten massive, concert-style screens were laid out before the Capitol, with a well-coiffed blonde woman on the farthest stage preaching to thousands of people. The crowd was mainly women, of all ages and races, wearing pink T-shirts that read #DontMessWithOurKids.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Nathan J. Beacom |Paul Miller |Jessica Schurz
Published December 9, 2024 To understand how consequential the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is, you can read some of the many learned geopolitical analyses floating around today. Or you can save yourself time and marvel at this: The president of the United States was pulled out of mothballs and dusted off to comment on it.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Paul Miller |Jessica Schurz |Jeffery Tyler Syck
Can self-interest be an antidote to polarization? Published December 8, 2024 Michael interviews attorney and author Asma Uddin about her childhood in a Pakistani Muslim family Miami and her journey in exploring interfaith cooperation and religious freedom. They delve into the challenges and opportunities for faith groups to collaborate on public policy issues, the changing perceptions of evangelical identity, and the lessons that can be learned from minority experiences.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Paul Miller |Kevin Williamson |Mark Tooley |Rachael Larimore
Two metaphors for the position conservative Christians now find themselves in. Published December 8, 2024 In one of Aesop’s fables, a deer fleeing hunters takes refuge in a cave, only to fall prey to a lion into whose den he had stumbled. The moral: Sometimes safety is an illusion hiding greater dangers. Let me offer an updated version: The deer flees to the cave knowing the lion was there, hoping to hire the lion to take out the hunter.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Megan Dent |Paul Miller |Jessica Schurz
By and Published December 8, 2024 Happy Sunday. Before we get into today’s essay, an announcement for Dispatch Premium members (and those on the fence about becoming premium members): We’re hosting our first Premium Town Hall on Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET. You’ll be able to interact directly with Dispatch founders and editors in an ask-me-anything style Zoom call. We’ll send out more details in the coming days, including an RSVP link exclusively for premium members.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Jonah Goldberg |Paul Miller |Michael Warren
The Deep State is just a myth. Published December 5, 2024 Vikings have been having an extended moment in pop culture for the past decade or so. There was Michael Hirst’s creatively titled drama, Vikings, and its sequel, Vikings: Valhalla. There are dopey neo-pagans and Amon Amarth fans out there rowing in the mosh pit and stacks of silly fantasy novels, fashion, grooming products—the works. Strange thing: There were no Vikings. Vikings were not a thing.
