Senior Fellow, @trinityforum. Writing for @nytimes & @TheAtlantic. Worked in Reagan/Bush41 administrations and Bush43 White House. Bluesky: Peter-Wehner
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Apr 14
Pete Hegseth seems less interested in being on the side of God than on insisting that God is on his side, @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Mar 8
“Too many people are living fragmented lives,” @Peter_Wehner writes. “What we lack, in a single word, is ‘shalom.’” “Shalom” is often translated into English as “peace,” but “its fuller meaning is something closer to human flourishing”: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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"Much of today’s evangelical world sees Trump’s viciousness not as a vice but as a virtue." From my most recent essay in @TheAtlantic
Feb 6
At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics, Peter Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jan 22
.@Peter_Wehner on the current moment in American Christianity. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jan 22
"My hope, as a Christian, is that those of us who claim to be followers of Jesus will soon discover what Augustine discovered: That we will fall more in love with Beauty so ancient, Beauty so new. That in doing so we will stand out as expressing our faith through love."
Jan 21
The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals aligning with ICE are "prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus," @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jan 22
"Christians need to provide the world evidence of the compelling beauty and truth of God, but we cannot show the world what we ourselves cannot see."
Jan 21
The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals aligning with ICE are "prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus," @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jan 22
The Trump administration "has welcomed Christians into a theological twilight zone, where the beatitudes are invoked on behalf of a political movement with authoritarian tendencies. This isn’t the first time in history such things have happened."
Jan 21
The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals aligning with ICE are "prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus," @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jan 22
My latest essay in The Atlantic, "MAGA Jesus is not the Real Jesus." Many evangelicals are doing incalculable harm to the faith they proclaim.
Jan 21
The Christian fundamentalists and evangelicals aligning with ICE are "prying Christianity further and further away from the ethic and teachings of Jesus," @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Peter Wehner retweeted
Jan 10
“The ethic in some nations may be that might makes right, but not in the United States. Until Donald Trump, that is. Now everything is different,” @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Peter Wehner retweeted
Jan 9
“The ethic in some nations may be that might makes right, but not in the United States. Until Donald Trump, that is. Now everything is different,” @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Peter Wehner retweeted
17 Dec 2025
Trump "showed a level of viciousness toward [Rob] Reiner in death that we rarely see in anyone, and have never before seen in an American president," Peter Wehner argues—and it's a mistake to dismiss his words. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Peter Wehner retweeted
17 Dec 2025
"Heraclitus taught that character is destiny. In Trump’s case, his sociopathy is destiny." - @Peter_Wehner
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.@Peter_Wehner: President Donald Trump "seems to draw energy from hatred, from generating hatred toward other people."
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Peter Wehner retweeted
31 Oct 2025
“A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation. And it’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots,” @Peter_Wehner argues: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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Peter Wehner retweeted
31 Oct 2025
"Give Donald Trump this much: He has never tried to hide his malice, his lawlessness, or his desire to inflict pain on others." - @Peter_Wehner
Trump's authoritarian plans are out in the open.
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Peter Wehner retweeted
19 Oct 2025
Shohei Ohtani just played perhaps the greatest game in the history of baseball, @Peter_Wehner argues. But Ohtani’s “performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Peter Wehner retweeted
16 Sep 2025
Politics can't be understood without emotion, @Peter_Wehner writes. "Right now the dark side is winning, and our higher aspirations need to be reawakened": theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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13 Aug 2025
"It’s not so much that we know every ethical line [Christopher] Foyle draws is the exact right one; it’s rather that we know he’s doing the best he can to pursue justice...Foyle’s moral compass can’t be demagnetized."
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13 Aug 2025
It doesn't need to be this way. "Let us not become weary in doing good."
13 Aug 2025
These days, “cruelty is the coin of the realm; it’s the way to get ahead,” @Peter_Wehner writes. “The only way out of this wreckage is to rewrite the cultural script, to make excellence in character admired again”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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