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Invisible President

Barton Swaim

We Are the Change We Seek:The Speeches of Barack Obamaedited by e. j. dionne jr. and joy-ann reidbloomsbury, 376 pages, $25 The one thing we know about Barack Obama—at...

Boomer Pharisaism

Barton Swaim

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;...

Stott Bowdlerized

Barton Swaim

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...

Varieties of Religious Certitude

Barton Swaim

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