Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Florida, and the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal. He is also a Contributing Editor with Providence Magazine.
Most people experience moments that suggest life has meaning beyond the quotidian: painting a picture, talking with a friend, holding the hand of a small child, volunteering in a homeless shelter, watching the surf roll up the beach as the sun rises on the horizon. But some believe meaning is not a thing, but a person.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 30, 2017
To understand what Christmas means, we need to know what Christians mean by God, His Son, and what on earth they think God’s Son was doing being born in the first place. We also need to ask why we believe our lives have meaning.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 29, 2017
The slaughter of the innocents reminds us that God paid an obscene price for His determination to people the world with real people and autonomous moral actors rather than sock puppets. That is what we really celebrate at Christmas.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 28, 2017
The Christian idea of the Virgin Birth is making at least two fundamentally crucial claims. One of them is about Jesus.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 27, 2017
Both Matthew and Luke think it’s extremely important that Jesus was a Jew and that the story of Jesus is part of the story of God’s encounter with the Jewish people.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 26, 2017
Providence is thrilled to become the new home of Walter Russell Mead’s Yule Tide Blog. Offering reflections on the meaning of Christmas and its relevance to the modern world, the Yule Blog has become a grand and important holiday tradition.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 24, 2017
The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference. Walter Russell Mead discusses the influence of…
Walter Russell MeadOctober 19, 2017
The most important needs so many Americans have are attended to by communities, not bureaucracies. The only institution that can meet these needs on anything like the scale required is the institution that the Boomers by and large neglected: the neighborhood church.
Walter Russell MeadFebruary 15, 2016
