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A couple of years ago, I heard the historian David Starkey describe the Church of England as “English Shintoism—the English worshiping themselves.” He meant this...

Out in some wild place, there stands a prophet. He is alone with the elements and his God. He has retreated from the crowds, yet again and again they follow him and demand a sign...

I noticed it last Christmas: It’s the women who really hate Ebenezer Scrooge. In the opening scene of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, the main victims of Scrooge’s scorn are his...