Prior to reading Stephen Wolfe's The Case for Christian Nationalism, I thought I would be disagreeing with the "nationalist" part. Not because of the facile and specious identification of nationalism with fascism that is so common among the small-minded chatteratti. I was never in danger of that mistake. When I think of nationalism I think of the 19th century phenomenon, which denigrated the classical cultural unities that held together Christendom as a civilization, and which shifted the basic locus of culture to the vulgar ethnicities, while simultaneously drawing power to the top of each ethnostate through national bureaucracies, undermining traditional local authorities. As you can probably tell, I take an ill view of this sort of thing. As it turns out, however, this has nothing to do with Wolfe's project. What he wants are Christian societies governed by Christian laws. He is not a nationalist in the sense in which I use the term. And I am a nationalist, and a Christian nationalist, in the sense in which he uses those terms.

All the same, I can agree with his conclusion while criticizing his arguments. And that is what I will do here. I have loaned my copy of his book to a friend, so I'm going to criticize an article of his where he makes the case more briefly: "The Church among the Nations," at American Reformer.