Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman
About this episode
Razib Khan interviews Matthew Schmitz about the intersection of Christianity, identity politics, and the evolution of New Atheism.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.com Today Razib talks to Matthew Schmitz, a journalist who previously served as an editor at the religious journal First Things . He is the cofounder of the online magazine Compact , alongside Edwin Aponte and Sohrab Ahmari. He currently serves as editor of Compact , religion editor of Washington Post Opinions, and co-host of the podcast Against the Grain . Compact His essays on politics and culture have appeared in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and The Claremont Review of Books . A native of O’Neill, Nebraska, Schmitz is a graduate of Princeton University. First, they discuss Schmitz’s piece in the Washington Post , The unreligious religiosity of Christian identity politics . Here Schmitz articulates the view that the nationalist-inflected Christianity exemplified by many MAGA and MAGA-adjacent figures is quite different from the sincere but earnest evangelicalism of the older religious right. Rather, it is more performative, more civilizational, and tied into white identity politics. Additionally, it turns away from the philo-Semitism that has been typical of the American religious…
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