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In this first episode of the new Contra Mundum: Conversations With C. Jay Engel series, C. Jay talks with Timon Cline, author of two new books on political theory and practice to be released this year, and of the essay, “The Protestant Solution: Party, Sect, and Machiavelli’s Transpolitical Problem” in American Reformer. Read Timon Cline’s essay: https://americanreformer.org/2026/01/the-protestant-solution/ Find C. Jay on X: https://x.com/contramordor

Minnesota has relented and begun cooperating with ICE, sending the State Patrol and local police to disperse agitators and protect their operations. Tom Homan has been sent in to conduct negotiations with Walz, Frey, and other leaders to honor immigration detainers. Trump unequivocally won this exchange. Leftist freaks are in shambles. Ilhan Omar is doing Jussie Smollett stuff. Protestors are storming Walz's office. This is a disaster for them. If you listen to much of the online right, unfortunately, they are certain that Trump has betrayed us, we've lost, Gavin Newsom is already president, we're all being put into camps, and our kidneys will be sold to buy missiles for Israel. But this is not so. The border is totally closed. After the BBB, ICE is nearly at full strength, mass deportations are finally happening, H1bs have been halved via bureaucratic scrutiny, the foreign student population is plummeting, and now a sanctuary state has been brought to heel. Where do things go from here? This, plus a discussion on Constantine from Leithart's Against Christianity.

Trump's DOJ has begun to make arrests in the leftwing disruption of the worship of Cities Church in Minnesota. Why did it take so long? Will Don Lemon be arrested? Will anyone get convicted? This plus further discussion of Against Ethics.

The Battle of Minneapolis rages in the week after an incident where a leftwing agitator lost her life while obstructing federal law enforcement operations. Will the administration have the resolve to see this out? Will the left be broken by this? Plus, we continue our journey through Leithart's Against Christianity.

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The massive daycare and autism fraud in Minnesota has captured national attention. Will there be any significant arrests? Will there be mass denaturalizations and deportations? That and much, much more.

Today we do a quick livestream before Christmas. We'll take questions from the chat. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Has the totalizing culture of affirmative action and DEI systematically shut white men out of employment and educational opportunities? That is the case that has been made by Jacob Savage's personal testimonial in Compact Magazine. We discuss this, plus Jeremy Carl's excellent review of the article. Plus, also we discuss the new Camp of the Saints audiobook with its narrator, Chad Newsom. Links: https://www.compactmag.com/article/th...https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/why...https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Camp-o... To Donate to Whitleyville Reformation Church: https://buy.stripe.com/eVa28Xge63zpgC...

Just this past week the State Department released the 2025 National Security Strategy paper, usually a very boring document only policy wonks pay attention to. This one is far from that. In it, they articulated a radically shifting foreign policy priority, one that focuses entirely on the American sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, and NOT Europe, the Mid-East, or anywhere else. What does this mean for the future of the Empire? What does it mean for the future of globalism? To get your copy of the now released The Boniface Option, please go to: https://www.newchristendompress.com/s... To give a year-end donation to Whitleyville Reformation Church: https://buy.stripe.com/eVa28Xge63zpgC...

In 1992, Samuel T. Francis wrote in Chronicles Magazine: "The mission of the new nationalism must be not merely the winning of formal political power through elections and roll-call votes but also the acquisition of substantive social power and the displacement of the incumbent managerial elite of the regime by its own elite drawn from and representing the Middle-American social stratum." Was he right about the way forward? Is this what is happening in America today? Get your copy of the latest, beautiful hardcover second edition of The Boniface Option today: https://www.newchristendompress.com/b...

Kevin DeYoung is the pre-eminent voice in mainstream, conservative Protestantism. And unlike nearly every other critic of Christian Nationalism, he appears to be entirely genuine and honest. In other words, he is someone to take seriously. This week, he wrote an article entitled "Six Questions for Christian Nationalists." Today, we cover this article and answer these questions of his. Get your copy of the hardcover release of The Boniface Option today! https://www.newchristendompress.com/s...

Thanksgiving has become engulfed by both Halloween and Christmas. Will a holiday that explicitly rooted in protestant Christianity and historic American experience survive the easily adopted consumerist holidays that surround it? Plus the 2025 Contra Mundum Turkey of the Year will be announced. We discuss this article in The American Sun: https://theamericansun.substack.com/p... The second edition of The Boniface Option is now available: https://www.newchristendompress.com/b...

Does Romans Chapter 11 predict a conversion of Israel to Christianity that is in our future? That is indeed the majority view, but what if that isn't correct? What if what Paul was talking about in Romans 11 was future to him but to us it is past? We examine the preterist reading of Romans 9-11 in James B. Jordan's paper "The Future of Israel Re-Examined." Get your copy of the new edition of The Boniface Option here: https://www.newchristendompress.com/b...

What is Israel today? What was the purpose of Israel in the Bible? Are Christians required to support the Israeli state today? What does Romans 11:26 mean? We discuss these questions as we begin to review James B. Jordan's 1991 essay, "The Future of Israel Re-Examined." Pre-orders are open for the Second Edition of The Boniface Option: https://www.newchristendompress.com/b...

After an abysmal interview with Laura Ingraham, in which President Trump defended H1-B visas and his admission of 600,000 Chinese students, some are declaring MAGA "dead." Is it? 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/63355347...