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Mitchell Bahnsen

Mitchell G. Bahnsen is a student at Westmont College studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and a Research Assistant at the California Policy Center. He is interested in the relationship between Christian theology and political practice. His intellectual heroes include Herman Bavinck, Charles Taylor, and Winston Churchill. He is a member of Christ Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara, and looks forward to a career in Christian thought and public policy.

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Romans 13 and the American Revolution 

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As St. Augustine reminds us, “men build cities, and men destroy cities, but there is also the City of God, and that’s where we all belong.” Christians live in both. The task is not to sanctify our politics, but to order them rightly in light of that higher allegiance.
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Identity and Recognition Are the Polarized Polis’s Chief Virtues 

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Tocqueville’s insight anticipates Taylor’s: a democracy built on dialogical identity easily turns into a society where individuals depend on the crowd for self-definition.