Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other

When "Listening to the Holy Spirit" Becomes a Trump Card || Dr. Keri Ladner on Christian Dominionism

The theology quietly staffing Trump's cabinet, and why it doesn't need to make sense to work. Dr. Keri Ladner studies the radicalization of the American religious right,

Gus Gusentine || A Navy SEAL Commander on Faith, War, and Identity

A Navy SEAL commander on identity, faith, and why we fight the wars we fight. Captain Robert "Gus" Gusentine spent nearly 30 years in the Navy, commanding SEAL Team 10 a

A Democratic Senator and a Republican Delegate on the Fights Within Their Own Supermajorities || Terms of Service with Future Caucus

Terms of Service with Future Caucus A Rhode Island Democrat and a West Virginia Republican, both serving in supermajorities, on why the toughest fights are sometimes wit

I'm Not "You Guys," I'm Your Buddy Corey || Talking TDS on the American Values Coalition Podcast

A buddy at the dive bar hit Corey with "you guys and your TDS." The label stung less than the move behind it: getting turned into a "you guys" in the first place. This o

Michelle Cottle on Getting Out of Your Bubble || National Politics, the New York Times, and Talking Across the Divide

"Nobody I know voted for George Bush." Michelle Cottle has heard that line her whole career, and it explains almost everything about the mess we're in. A New York Times c

To the Republic... To the Pub || Trump's $100K Social Play & the 2026 Senate Races || With My Buddy Brandon at a Local Dive Bar

Two megaphones, two drinks, one bar. Corey quits talking about talking and just gets to the talkin'. First edition of "To the Republic... To the Pub." Corey and his budd

Protest Is Boring. Dialogue Is the New Counterculture. || Manu Meel of Bridge USA & Liz Joyner of The Village Square

The 20 percent who love the fight own the microphone. This is a conversation about how the other 80 take it back. Manu Meel runs BridgeUSA, a student-led movement for co

Ethical. Legal. Wise. || Three Senate Races and How I'd Vote

Most people vote the policy first. Corey saves it for last. Ethical, legal, wise. Those are the three questions David French asks of any law or action, and Corey turns t

Richard Parker || God, Money, and the Making of America

Richard Parker has spent his life reading America through two lenses most people keep apart: economics and religion. The throughline is that faith, money, and power did n

Democratic and Republican Minnesota Lawmakers on Coming Together after Political Violence || Terms of Service with Future Caucus

Terms of Service with Future Caucus Two Minnesota lawmakers, one Democrat and one Republican, on what public service costs and what it took to keep going after tragedy.

Enemies, Then Friends || Barbara Bradley Hagerty on Ben Spencer, Justice, and Reconciliation

Barbara Bradley Hagerty has spent a career asking why people do the things they do. The hardest answer she found runs through a wrongful conviction, thirty-four years los

Who's Got the Real TDS? || What We'll Abide

The essay ran in The Dispatch. Then a few hundred readers wrote back, and a few of them changed my mind. There is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome. It just isn

Carl Cannon, RealClearPolitics || "We Weren't Objective. So We Got Trump."

Carl Cannon came up in newsrooms where editors challenged you word by word, and nearly fifty years on he's still keeping score on who gets the quote right. His one rule,

Yuval Levin: We Disagree Too Little || A Village Squarecast Special

Something a little different this week. This is a Village Squarecast episode, shared here in full, and you'll hear Corey host the top before turning it over to Liz Joyner

The Only Industry the Constitution Protects || Hugo Balta, The Fulcrum

The press is the only industry the Constitution protects. Hugo Balta thinks too many newsrooms forgot why, and he walked out to prove it. Hugo Balta spent three decades

Leaving the Church, Keeping the Prayer || Lauren Jackson, The New York Times

She left the church at twenty-five. She never stopped praying, and she still doesn't know who's listening. Lauren Jackson writes Believing, the New York Times newsletter

Lindsey Cormack || How to Raise a Citizen for a Government That Doesn't Suck

The founders weren't just the names in the history books. You count as one, and citizenship is something you practice. Lindsey Cormack studies how members of Congress ac

All the Meeting Places || On Desecration and What Endures at America's 250th

Through Psalm 74 and the firebombing of a New Jersey synagogue in 1984, a bar mitzvah season becomes a reckoning with the places we call hallowed and what survives once t

Stop Talking, Start Building || Rich Harwood on How Divided Towns Actually Heal

A doctor once told Rich Harwood's mother to face it, her son was a lemon. He's spent his life proving no one is disposable, and that even the most divided towns in Americ

Spring/Summer Updates || Two Essays, and We're Taking This to the Pub

An off-the-cuff solo update on two essays in the works: one on the sacred spaces we share and what survives their desecration, the other on the real derangement in our po