Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, and the Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship for the Hudson Institute. He previously served as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations. His works include God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2008), and he is the Global Views Columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
Christmas is important to Christians because from their point of view the Baby Jesus is the meaning of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas is the meaning of life.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 6, 2024
History turned a corner with the birth of Jesus Christ, and while the written reports of that event don’t tell…
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 5, 2024
If we leave religion out of our national conversation, we end up with a vapid conversation that doesn’t address the…
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 4, 2024
To get any insight at all into what Jesus’ childhood and upbringing were like, you have to do something that…
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 3, 2024
The flawed human race, trapped in a cycle of cascading pain and wrong, is what and who God is bound…
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 2, 2024
The Christmas story suggests that we can somehow try to be loyal members of our nations, our families, our tribes—and…
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 1, 2024
Now it gets tough. Yesterday’s post at the Yule Blog looked at what divides Christians and other theists from atheists; today…
Walter Russell MeadDecember 31, 2023
Yesterday, the Yule Blog featured an essay about how theists and atheists are not all that different from each other;…
Walter Russell MeadDecember 30, 2023
Happy fifth day of Christmas, and welcome back to the 2023-2024 Yule Blog, where we aim to keep the holiday…
Walter Russell MeadDecember 29, 2023
Everybody wants to reduce Christmas to a Christmas card: we’d like this to be a pretty and sentimental tale. But…
Walter Russell MeadDecember 28, 2023