Contra Mundum

In this first episode of the new Contra Mundum: Conversations With C. Jay Engel series, C. Jay talks with Timon Cline, author of two new books on political theory and practice to be released this year, and of the essay, “The Protestant Solution: Party, Sect, and Machiavelli’s Transpolitical Problem” in American Reformer.Read Timon Cline’s essay: https://americanreformer.org/2026/01/the-protestant-solution/Find C. Jay on X: https://x.com/contramordor

Minnesota has relented and begun cooperating with ICE, sending the State Patrol and local police to disperse agitators and protect their operations. Tom Homan has been sent in to conduct negotiations with Walz, Frey, and other leaders to honor immigration detainers. Trump unequivocally won this exchange. Leftist freaks are in shambles. Ilhan Omar is doing Jussie Smollett stuff. Protestors are storming Walz's office. This is a disaster for them. If you listen to much of the online right, unfortunately, they are certain that Trump has betrayed us, we've lost, Gavin Newsom is already president, we're all being put into camps, and our kidneys will be sold to buy missiles for Israel. But this is not so. The border is totally closed. After the BBB, ICE is nearly at full strength, mass deportations are finally happening, H1bs have been halved via bureaucratic scrutiny, the foreign student population is plummeting, and now a sanctuary state has been brought to heel. Where do things go from here? This, plus a discussion on Constantine from Leithart's Against Christianity.

Trump's DOJ has begun to make arrests in the leftwing disruption of the worship of Cities Church in Minnesota. Why did it take so long? Will Don Lemon be arrested? Will anyone get convicted? This plus further discussion of Against Ethics.

The Battle of Minneapolis rages in the week after an incident where a leftwing agitator lost her life while obstructing federal law enforcement operations. Will the administration have the resolve to see this out? Will the left be broken by this? Plus, we continue our journey through Leithart's Against Christianity.

Contra Mundum

The massive daycare and autism fraud in Minnesota has captured national attention. Will there be any significant arrests? Will there be mass denaturalizations and deportations? That and much, much more.

Today we do a quick livestream before Christmas. We'll take questions from the chat. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Has the totalizing culture of affirmative action and DEI systematically shut white men out of employment and educational opportunities? That is the case that has been made by Jacob Savage's personal testimonial in Compact Magazine. We discuss this, plus Jeremy Carl's excellent review of the article. Plus, also we discuss the new Camp of the Saints audiobook with its narrator, Chad Newsom. Links: https://www.compactmag.com/article/th...https://jeremycarl.substack.com/p/why...https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Camp-o... To Donate to Whitleyville Reformation Church: https://buy.stripe.com/eVa28Xge63zpgC...

Just this past week the State Department released the 2025 National Security Strategy paper, usually a very boring document only policy wonks pay attention to. This one is far from that. In it, they articulated a radically shifting foreign policy priority, one that focuses entirely on the American sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere, and NOT Europe, the Mid-East, or anywhere else. What does this mean for the future of the Empire? What does it mean for the future of globalism? To get your copy of the now released The Boniface Option, please go to: https://www.newchristendompress.com/s... To give a year-end donation to Whitleyville Reformation Church: https://buy.stripe.com/eVa28Xge63zpgC...

In 1992, Samuel T. Francis wrote in Chronicles Magazine:"The mission of the new nationalism mustbe not merely the winning of formalpolitical power through elections and roll-callvotes but also the acquisition of substantivesocial power and the displacement of theincumbent managerial elite of the regime byits own elite drawn from and representing theMiddle-American social stratum."Was he right about the way forward? Is this what is happening in America today?Get your copy of the latest, beautiful hardcover second edition of The Boniface Option today:https://www.newchristendompress.com/b...