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Appeasement and Just War Reasoning
On the last day of February, President Zelensky of Ukraine was ambushed and sent packing from a White House meeting with President Trump. Their disagreement is, in a way,...
Equal Persons
Several years ago, James Mumford brought to my attention a passage from an essay by George Orwell. I was struck by it then and am struck by it still....
The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy
Perhaps only a few potential readers are interested enough in an essay titled “The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy” to begin reading it immediately (or ever). Others may...
The Hypocrisy of Masks
No, not the masks you assume I have in mind, the masks that have become such a bone of contention in our society. The masks I have in mind...
Reunion on the Far Shore
Heaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of Love.” In saying this, however, he did not seem to have in...
Reading Lewis
After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s the Abolition of Manby michael wardword on fire academic, 253 pages, $24.95 r The subtitle of this book characterizes it as a “guide”...
Vaccines and Fetal Tissue
In 1975 Paul Ramsey published a little book titled The Ethics of Fetal Research. In it he was at pains to distinguish experimental use of the dead fetus or...
A Grand Old Flag
Whenever the national anthem is played or sung before a game I am attending, I stand and face the flag until the anthem is over. (If it happens to...
Not-So-Deep Thoughts From Quarantine
A couple weeks now into sheltering-in-place (more or less, except when hungry), of acknowledging my membership in a high-risk demographic, and of a somewhat uncharacteristic willingness to make sacrifices...
Late-Night Musings on Nationalism
Pondering the endless glut of books on the virtues of nationalism and the failures of political liberalism, I sat up late the other night, reading around (yet again) in...
I’ll Have Consequences
Not too many years ago, I knew a little boy who was prone to temper tantrums that included yelling, kicking, and hitting. He wasn’t entirely to blame for this,...
Fences and Neighbors
In his famous speech (in Acts 17) to “men of Athens” at the Areopagus, St.n Paul speaks of the providential ordering of God as including differentn nations, each having...
Virtuous Evildoers
At the end of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius, the conspirators who had assassinated Caesar, are themselves dead. Brutus has, in fact, fallen upon his sword rather...
9.5 Theses
In this 500th anniversary year of the Reformation, there are countless angles from which to think about that event and its continuing significance. By no means the least important...
Self-Evident, Not Obvious
C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Lawby justin buckley dyer and micah j. watsoncambridge, 170 pages, $44.99 Of the making of books about C. S. Lewis there...
