The first battalion of Democratic candidates kick off the debate season tonight, and I, for one, could not be happier. There has been a gaping hole in my life, a tireless quest for meaning, a blind shamble toward an existential abyss. A debate season that features two or three dozen candidates getting 90 seconds to […]

Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com.   I hope you guys aren’t getting tired of it just being me posting throughout the summer. Such is the natural course of a […]

Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com.   We have a strangely apolitical and short mailbag this week, but seeing as it’s summer and everyone’s on vacation anyway, I think we’ll […]

Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com.   Q: Daniel asks: “Thoughts regarding the recent revelations surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.? How do we reconcile revelations like this regarding people, who […]

Every American should take a pilgrimage to the cemetery that overlooks those beaches.

Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com.   So there I was, checking the mailbag and wondering to myself if anyone was going to send something in for this week, when […]

Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com.   Well, the title is pretty much the post for the week, and you’ll notice the lack of an exclamation mark in the title […]

As a Fulbright scholar recently returned from 9 months studying Australian politics, I eagerly awaited the results of this past Saturday’s federal election down under. (By the way, Australians think weekend elections are one of the many improvements they made to representative government which the United States ignores to its own harm.)  Before the election, […]

Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com.   Ready for some behind the scenes? I, as a duly ordained contributor to this blog, get to see which posts are upcoming/in the […]

The Bullington Diatribe Chronicles will run occasionally for the amusement of some, the facepalming of many others, and the inconvenience of all. The following is satire….obviously. The Mueller report has continued to drop and bounce around for the past couple of weeks, much like one of those super bouncy-balls mom and dad used to get […]