The Salad Bowl of Diversity, August 6, 2025.

Introduction.

The second chapter of disarming Leviathan is an interesting affair that might best be called

Campbell versus Campbell.

The first part of the chapter is at complete odds with the second half of the

chapter and vice versa. I am here volunteering to serve as something of our referee. In the course of

this chapter, Campbell signaled what general direction he's coming from when he distinguished

Christian nationalism from Christian conservatism. And the good guy conservatives he helpedfully listed

for us were Michael Gerson, Liz Janie, Russell Moore, Paul D. Miller, Peter Wainer, and David French. Page 32. So now we know.

This is the kind of conservatism that stands a thwart history calling out something like, don't mind us.

Or perhaps standing beside the arc of history highway, thumbs out. The Campbell of the first half.

In the first half of this chapter, Campbell writes as if the American melting pot has been entirely replaced by the salad bowl,

We are a variety of nations, bacon bits here, croutons there, raisins on the bottom.

Not only so, but he writes as though, we've always been a salad bowl,

as though the American genius at the

founding was to embrace our salad bowl destiny. Quote, in a sense, the United States is not one

nation, but rather a state comprising a variety of nations, people groups that feature observable

customs like dance, Maori haka, culinary traditions, Midwestern Tater Tot cassero Casserol, dialect, Bostonian, music, African-American

spirituals, and other similar practices. Campbell, page 21. He does acknowledge that Americans tend to use

the words nation and state interchangeably, but argues that we are not being particularly accurate

when we do that. He leans away from that as a confusion. He believes it would be far more accurate to say that we are not being particularly accurate when we do that. He leans away from that

as a confusion. He believes it would be far more accurate to say that we are one state, one that

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