Matthew D Wright

Political theorist, Professor in the Torrey Honors College, Biola University

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

This year Harry and I made our 6th historic flag or banner together in celebration of the 250th.

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

It's a great honor to be included among the winners of the Heritage Foundation's Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize!
https://t.co/mNm6GbpYkT

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

Congratulations to our five Madison Society Members who received the Heritage Foundation's 2026 Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize.

Among those awarded for service in higher education that has advanced key conservative policy goals, three of them are:

• Carson Holloway, a 2005-06 Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program.
• Mark W. Bauerlein (@mark_bauerlein), a 2010-11 Visiting Fellow at JMP.
• Wilfred M. McClay, a Madison Society Member.

https://t.co/zsDfkpSsP2

[James Madison Program @MadisonProgram]

Two of the other award winners are:

• John D. Wilsey, a 2017-18 Visiting Fellow at JMP.

• Matthew D. Wright (@mdavidsonwright), a 2019-20 Visiting Research Scholar at JMP.

https://t.co/Auqdg8gMEJ

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

This is correct, & the reason why more Evangelcl leadrs don't acknwldg it, I suspect, is that it entails an admission that perhaps MAGA gets somthng right. So, they are content to allow secular liberals to define pluralism & hope for relig lib carve outs. That strategy will fail.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Islamist ideology is at fundamental odds with the tenets of Western civilization.

Herein lies a tension: If our commitment to an Open Society cannot prevent the undoing of, and harm to the Open Society, by those who would use the principles of freedom to eventually sunset those same principles, perhaps aspects of those principles—namely, the extent to which they are exercisable—need revisiting. In other words, a reasonable pluralism can only succeed if there is, at some point, an identifiable line that is crossed that erodes the plausibility of pluralism to start with.

Tragically, the ambient relativism of liberalism makes the boundaries of reasonableness nearly impossible for the modern mind to discern, as we have already embraced, by cultural habit and custom, the irrational elsewhere.

The only way to return Western order to sanity is to re-Christianize the West. Secularism is uncomfortable with this. The question is: Will secularists be more comfortable with a Christian order or less comfortable with an Islamic order? Regardless, secularism will not survive, so it needs to choose its conqueror.

[Mark Bauerlein @mark_bauerlein]

@aaron_renn Reporters and academics who stayed silent for years as identity politics and political correctness on campus got ever tighter and more punitive have no credibility to speak on current efforts in Texas, Florida, or anywhere else.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

newsflash, @nytimes, it's no longer the '70s.

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

Really great piece. I read the Moviegoer and Love in the Ruins over the summer and really enjoyed them. Valiunas elevated my understanding of what Percy is up to. I'm fast becoming a fan!

[Ethics and Public Policy Center @EPPCdc]

EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas: "Walker Percy was wise as few men can hope to be, and we have never been in greater need of such wisdom as we are now." https://t.co/57LeT8SkLR

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

FACT

[Postmanbloke; salmon shorts 🎣🌊🦅🇺🇲 @4HLsartorialist]

Rugby shirts>>>>hoodies

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Man Torn Between Learning New Board Game Or Getting PhD In Quantum Physics https://t.co/H1DkFxOeC0

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

Very excited about this new podcast from my friend, Shilo Brooks!

[OldSchoolPod @old_school_pod]

Fewer people than ever are reading for pleasure. Shilo Brooks wants to change that.

Introducing Old School, a new podcast from @TheFP about great books—and how they can make us stronger, better men. Each episode features intimate conversations with guests—like @NickCave, @MIsraetel, @Coldxman, @CornelWest, @StevenRinella, @RobKHenderson, @RichardDawkins, @StavridisJ and more—about the books that shaped their lives.

Premiering Oct. 9.

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Texas A&M last night for Charlie.

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

“I must lay down my pencil, my engine of truth and bathe my crippled hands in some warm water...”

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

A salon where I used to get my hair done in DC partnered with surrounding businesses to hire private security earlier this year—because the break-ins and crime had gotten so brazen and so bad… and now their stylists are posting on social media about resisting fascism. 🥹

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

Burke on the unalienable natural right to liberty...

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

"[O]ften the desire and design of a tyrannic domination lurks in the claim of an extravagant liberty." Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

“A spirit of reformation is never more consistent with itself, than when it refuses to be rendered the means of destruction.” Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

Burke on the unalienable natural right to liberty...

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

“You hope, sir, that I think the French deserving of liberty...I certainly think that all men who desire it, deserve it. It is not the reward of our merit...It is our inheritance. It is the birthright of our species. We cannot forfeit our right to it..." Burke, Letter to Depont

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

“You hope, sir, that I think the French deserving of liberty...I certainly think that all men who desire it, deserve it. It is not the reward of our merit...It is our inheritance. It is the birthright of our species. We cannot forfeit our right to it..." Burke, Letter to Depont

[Matthew D Wright @mdavidsonwright]

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” Federalist No. 55