Paul D. Miller

Happy to share that my next book, about the war in Afghanistan, is available for preorder now: amazon.com/Choosing-Defea…

This ended up being a great session—both educational and encouraging. Thanks to @NappNazworth, @calebphx, @DTKoyzis, @PaulDMiller2, & @michaelwaustin for hosting! If you missed it last week, you can watch it here now: open.substack.com/pub/j29coaliti…

Hace un mes se publicó "Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan", de Paul D. Miller. @PaulDMiller2 Su lectura me hizo pensar en cómo las instituciones no fracasan por falta de poder, sino por incoherencia, ego y decisiones mal calibradas. En gestión pública, movimiento no es avance: gobernar bien es permanecer, no aparecer. linkedin.com/pulse/escoger-… #GestiónPública #Gobernanza #Liderazgo #ÉticaPública #PaulDMiller

The UPS cargo plane crash is the first time I mistook a real video for AI. Just had a knee-jerk assumption it couldn't be real.

@USPSHelp How can I get in touch with a human being to search for a lost package? None of your FAQs answer my question and all your automated systems shut me out and do not let me open a case.

Mookie Betts and Max Muncy have played 36 innings of World Series Game 3 baseball.

Excellent work by @PaulDMiller2 thedispatch.com/newsletter/dis…

Essay: Is MAGA Christianity True Christianity? ✝️ Are we witnessing another schism in American Protestantism? via @thedispatch @PaulDMiller2 thedispatch.com/newsletter/dis… #CharlieKirk

Join us for this timely conversation with evangelical scholars and church leaders. @PaulDMiller2 @DTKoyzis @calebphx @michaelwaustin @DisarmingL @ourvaluesngo

Listen to the new podcast episode of Rendezvous with History now. Anthony Eames sits down with @PaulDMiller2 to discuss his new book, CHOOSING DEFEAT: The 20-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan cup.org/4ohs54D

For no reason, at all: "The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism" a.co/d/f2IfhKt #Amazon via @Amazon

.@PaulDMiller2: “For democracy to work, citizens must identify with one another at some level, however basic. A political killing betrays the core of what it means to be an American. It can come only from a nihilistic despair that debate and compromise and democracy itself have failed.”

SFS Prof @PaulDMiller2 talks to @Diplomat_APAC about his upcoming book “Choosing Defeat,” tracing how the U.S. lost in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. He explores counterterrorism, nation-building & the roles of U.S. agencies, Pakistan & more. Read more: bit.ly/4mcZk7r

"The best way to honor or oppose Charlie Kirk’s legacy is to keep arguing—peacefully and courageously." --Paul D. Miller thedispatch.com/article/je-sui…

And this: thedispatch.com/article/the-pr…

Sadly time to repost this again. thedispatch.com/article/is-it-…

A cheerful read for your Monday morning. My latest: providencemag.com/2025/08/were-a…

Seems a good time to re-up this piece from last year. thedispatch.com/article/is-it-…

@Captain_Strongo Public money going directly to a religious institution to fund an expressly religious function.... If it looks like an establishment, walks like an establishment, and quacks like an establishment, it's probably an establishment.

@PaulDMiller2 I still don’t think that counts as establishment, unless they favor specific denominations.

I'm an accommodationist on the First Amendment. The Oklahoma school wasn't "accommodation." It was an outright establishment of religion. Courts were right to shoot it down.

But the Oklahoma school wasn't trying to get public money for a nonsectarian purpose. It was trying to get public money to teach theology, not build a playground. That's why it was good to say no.

Oklahoma was different from the Trinity Lutheran case. Trinity Lutheran was about religious institutions being singled out for exclusion from public resources for nonsectarian purposes (a playground) on the basis of their faith. That's discriminatory.