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Once granted unchallenged supremacy, a GOP establishment is every bit as entrenched, every bit as self-protective, as every other establishment. Continue Reading »
Right-wing parties have little incentive to move to, or stay on, the right when they can count on conservatives to vote for them as the “lesser of two evils.” Continue Reading »
American pro-natalists need to bushwhack a better path to marriage if we want to help people have children. Continue Reading »
Metropolitan Andrew’s legacy lives on in the vitality of today’s Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine. Continue Reading »
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster has retreated into the abandoned sanctuary of the United Church of Bacon. There has been a softening. Continue Reading »
Grace may be free, but holiness costs, remarked Flannery O'Connor. Nick Cave, her literary descendant, reminds us that heresy does, too. Continue Reading »
Freed from the burden of bodily existence and the pain of self-recognition, one is able to contemplate—in a word—the void. Continue Reading »
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