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We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama edited by e. j. dionne jr. and joy-ann reid bloomsbury, 376 pages, $25 The one thing we know...

I live in a capital city. As in every capital in America, the city’s chief business is government. Government agencies are everywhere—large and powerful ones, small and unnecessary ones;...

R ecently I bought a copy of John Stott’s brief and famous exposition of the Christian gospel, Basic Christianity, which I intended to give to a friend. The book...

In a recent essay in the Times Literary Supplement , Steven Weinberg suggested that the reason the West has so far outstripped the Islamic world in scientific knowledge is...