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Appeasement and Just War Reasoning

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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

Gilbert Meilaender

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...