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.
Conventional manger scenes don’t show it, but besides the ox, the ass, the sheep, and the camels, there was another…
Walter Russell MeadDecember 27, 2023
As we start to look at this whole Christmas phenomenon, it makes sense to begin with the basics. The first…
Walter Russell MeadDecember 26, 2023
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all! Christmas is a tense morning wherever the Meads gather, as we jump whenever the telephone rings.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 25, 2023
The stockings are hung by the chimney with care at the ancestral Mead mansion; and as I settle down for a long winter’s rest, I am taking a break from politics and war, sort of, to yet another run of our good old-fashioned Yuletide blog.
Walter Russell MeadDecember 24, 2023
The Christmas season ends on a high note, with the Feast of the Epiphany—also known as Three Kings’ Day, the day on which Christians traditionally commemorate the visit of the Three Wise Men to the infant Christ.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 6, 2023
History turned a corner with the birth of Jesus Christ, and while the written reports of that event don’t tell me everything I want to know, they do tell me everything I need.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 5, 2023
And if we leave religion out of our national conversation, we end up with a vapid conversation that doesn’t address the deepest realities that move most of the people in this country.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 4, 2023
Theotokos can be translated into English several ways: the most common is “Mother of God,” and a very large majority of Christians around the world considers Mary to be, literally, the Mother of God.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 3, 2023
From a Christian perspective, God’s act of creation is an expression of love. God made the world because He wants an abundance of beings and sensibilities to love, to be with, to share life with, and to make happy.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 2, 2023
A little more than two thousand years after the first Christmas, Christianity is both more universal and “cosmopolitan” than ever, and yet it is also more deeply rooted in more cultures than ever before in its past.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 1, 2023
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