By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine, June 27, 2025
Kennedy Hall is the author of multiple best-selling books. He is a freelance author, audiobook narrator and host of the podcast Mere Tradition with Kennedy Hall. He is married with six children and lives in Ontario, Canada. He can be contacted through, and his work can be found at www.kennedyhall.ca.
Dispensationalist beliefs about Israel were re-popularized in low-church Protestant circles and are now held by many in our political class.
Did you see Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson’s heated interview that came out a week ago? If you didn’t, it was something else. In fairness to Cruz, I do believe Carlson was poking and prodding in ways that were a bit annoying, and I don’t fault Cruz for being irritated with Carlson at times. In addition, until Cruz embarrassed himself with two-bit Dispensationalist heresy, I don’t think he was being overly unreasonable, and I agreed with his sentiments in some cases.
Carlson and Cruz spoke largely about the Iran-Israel situation, which, as it stands, is in a state of flux. I won’t pretend to be an expert on it, and what may be the outcome could change at any moment. Due to the subject matter, they discussed the notion of whether a nation, in this case the United States, should be purely isolationist regarding global conflicts or whether there is room for joining in the conflicts involving other nations. Frankly, I personally agree with Cruz that pure isolationism may not be ideal and that there can be instances wherein allies do have each other’s backs. This is to say nothing about Israel per se, only that I agree with the concept. …
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