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Red Terror

Gabriel Rossman

The Cultural Revolution:A People’s History, 1962–1976by frank dikötter bloomsbury, 432 pages, $20 As American society was roiled this summer by civil unrest, purges, and struggle sessions, I read Frank...

Lord, To Whom Shall We Go?

Gabriel Rossman

In Sigrid Undset’s novel Kristin Lavransdatter, the title character’s lifetime of piety culminates in a saintly death as a lay resident of a convent. Although Undset, like her fictional...

Gifts, Sex, and the State Legislature

Gabriel Rossman

A Missouri state assembly bill sponsored by Representative Bart Korman (R-Montgomery County) would require lobbyists to disclose sexual relationships with legislators or legislative staffers. The bill does so through...

An Eel Wrapped Inside a Moray Hidden Inside a Lamprey

Gabriel Rossman

In a post about an hour ago, Deputy Editor Matthew Schmitz draws our attention to a Think Progress post that (until it was revised) stated “Social conservatives are worried...

Crying (Capitoline) Wolf on Religious Liberty

Gabriel Rossman

[The following was discovered recently when a Coptic translation appeared on the antiquities market, although some scholars doubt its authenticity as it bears suspicious resemblance to a modern document.] This...

A Terrible Ruling Against a Terrible Film

Gabriel Rossman

It may seem hard to get upset that the Ninth Circuit recently demanded that YouTube take down The Innocence of Muslims, a poorly made, maliciously offensive, and aesthetically nil...

They Will Take Up Serpents

Gabriel Rossman

On Saturday, Jamie Coots, a famous snake-handling preacher died in the predictable fashion. My lifestyle and worldview are pretty radically different from the charismatic fundamentalism of the late Pastor Coots,...

#First Things Valentines

Gabriel Rossman

Shall I compare thee to an um, uh, um Dang, reciting that poem eludes my cognition PC university education has left me ignorant of the Western tradition Reason is...

Paul’s Powerpoint to the Corinthians

Gabriel Rossman

I have long been struck by the beauty of Paul’s prose in chapter 13 expressing Christianity in terms of Platonism centuries before Augustine. Of course I have the advantage of...