Notes
The Room He Kept
A note on Doug Wilson, two meanings of “postwar consensus,” and a sentence that outruns the argument. Published 4 September 2026.
Forum Publicum
Running commentary and occasional pieces in the public square.
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The Two Slogans
Two sentences often travel together. One says Christian nationalism is inherently white nationalism. The other says America was never a Christian nation. What follows is about that pair, and about why those claims cannot share one past. The pair The popular case against the name usually arrives as two claims.
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If the Name Startles You
A front door to Christ, the Nations, and the Public Square If the phrase Christian nationalism makes you flinch, you are not strange. The fright has sources. Some of them are real abuses of the name. Some of them are a story told so often that a moral statute starts