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The Andrew Klavan Show

Stephen Wolfe Makes the Case for Christian Nationalism

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

News Commentary, News

4.822.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Stephen Wolfe, author of The Case for Christian Nationalism, joins us to defend the titular phenomenon as an inherent virtue against leftist scare tactics claiming that it heralds the end of "our democracy". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0

debate on the right about how we move forward when things seem to be falling apart. And

0:39.4

as I spoke about before, it seems like we are entering what they call a post-Christian

0:45.7

world, but it was really a pre-Christian pagan world. And a lot of people are wondering

0:49.1

how we can get back the ideas of virtue and the practice of virtue that the founders

0:55.2

knew was so essential to our freedom. Stephen Wolfe has written a really provocative

0:59.6

book called The Case for Christian Nationalism. You will remember that we were being condemned.

1:05.5

Everybody on the right was being condemned for being Christian nationalist. Stephen Wolfe

1:09.5

says, yeah, he is a country scholar at Wolfeshire in Central North Carolina where he lives

1:14.9

with his wife and four children. And he recently finished a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton.

1:19.9

Princeton University's James Madison program. He co-hosts the podcast, ours, Politica. Stephen

1:25.0

Wolfe, thank you so much for coming on.

1:26.6

Yeah, thank you for having me on. So since Christian nationalism has become virtually

1:31.9

a slur on the left, maybe you could start by just giving us something of your definition

1:38.0

of what Christian nationalism even means.

1:40.9

Yeah, I mean, the simplest definition is that it's simply a nation or a Christian nation

1:47.6

that has chosen to arrange itself and act for its good. And that good is both earthly

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