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<title><![CDATA[Matthew Schmitz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19669.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Matthew Schmitz]]></description><category domain="19669">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Vance Makes Case For a More Christian America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/03/jd-vance-says-christianity-can-help-overcome-america-divisions/?itid=sf_opinions_package-1_1_0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Secularism has divided the nation, the vice president says.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vance: Christianity Can Help Overcome Divisions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/03/jd-vance-says-christianity-can-help-overcome-america-divisions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vance sees Christianity as a unifying force. His new memoir, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Communion,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' blames secularism for social strife and proposes faith as the solution. The book is not just a conversion narrative.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Revolutionary Significance of Trump's UFC Fight]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-revolutionary-significance-of-trumps-white-house-ufc-fight/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's decision to host a UFC fight at the White House is a sign of far-reaching changes in American culture and politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Heteropessimist Horror]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/heteropessimist-horror/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obsession, the box-office sensation directed by 26-year-old Curry Barker, is a sign that the economics of Hollywood are changing, with internet-incubated stories overtaking superannuated IP.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jewish Leaders Warn of Left's Rising Antisemitism]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, Maureen Galindo, a Democratic House candidate in Texas, lost a runoff for her party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Islamo-Christian Right]]></title>
							<link>https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5972b94cae7e8a1cf4ae043a&amp;s=69f487b2748d746ddbabed8e&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_awakenings&amp;linknum=2&amp;linktot=46</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2015, Michel Houellebecq published '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Submission,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a novel describing (among other things) how members of the radical right might come to admire, even embrace, Islam. Now we are seeing exactly that happen, as I describe in today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s column on the rise of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Move To Take Out Khamenei Shouldn't Be Surprising]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/trump-was-always-an-iran-hawk/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more than four decades, Donald Trump has called for invading Iran, seizing its oil, and preventing it from gaining a nuclear weapon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Epstein Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://firstthings.com/the-epstein-myth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March 2005, the Palm Beach police began to investigate whether a fourteen-year-old girl had been molested by a wealthy man named Jeffrey Epstein. When police interviewed the girl...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vance &amp; Masters Vow to Shore Up Workers, End Wars]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2021/07/18/j-d-vance-blake-masters-promise-to-shore-up-us-workers-end-wars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two Senate candidates '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' J.D. Vance and Blake Masters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'offer one of the most promising signs yet that the Republican Party will take on the problems Trump recognized.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Breaking Up Facebook Is a Good Place to Start]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/break-up-facebook-teddy-roosevelt-would-cheer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to break up Facebook. This is the stunning argument made in a recent op-ed by Chris Hughes, who roomed with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and co-founded Facebook. Hughes argues that Facebook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Catholic Civil War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/opinion/pope-francis-catholic-church-letter.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Traditionalists want strict adherence to church doctrine. Liberals want the doctrine changed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Purple' Family Values]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/opinion/trumps-purple-family-values.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Baffling as it may be to elites, Mr. Trump embodies a real if imperfect model of family values.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Pope Francis Failed?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/opinion/has-pope-francis-failed.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Pope Francis ascended to the chair of St. Peter in March 2013, the world looked on in wonder. Here at last was a pope in line with the times, a man who preferred spontaneous gestures to ritual forms. Francis paid his own hotel bill and eschewed the red shoes. Rather than move into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Social Conservatism is Here to Stay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/24/social_conservatism_is_here_to_stay_98865.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Schmitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives sometimes seem more like they are part of a family than a movement. They look up to the same political father figure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but share little else other than a desire to fight over his inheritance. Last week, Princeton University invited four guests to its...]]></description>
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