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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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...