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The Dangers of Hindu Nationalism
On January 30, 1948, the Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi with three bullets fired at point-blank range. It was but a few months earlier...
The Reformation at Five Hundred
On October 25, many churches will once again observe “Reformation Sunday,” commemorating the day in 1517 when Martin Luther is said to have nailed his Ninety-Five Theses concerning theological...
Protestant Reformation Approaching 500
On October 31, 2017, the Protestant Reformation will turn 500. How ought one commemorate such an epochal, complex, and influential historical development? While the date is still a while...
Two Deaths
As I write these paragraphs, a friend of mine is treading through his last twenty-four hours of life on this earth. Tomorrow morning he will be executed, after thirty...
Germanizing Protestantism
Founding the Fathers: ? Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Clark University of Pennsylvania, 576 pages, $69.95 n If you wish . . ....
The Dialectic and the Double Helix
While a graduate student in history in the 1990s, I once asked a German friend what she found most remarkable about the United States. She recalled the experience of...
Maritain’s America
Since its founding, the United States has elicited much curiosity and commentary from European intellectuals. Oscillating between paternal interest and fraternal rivalry, Europe’s ambitious scribes have braved the Atlantic,...
America in the European Mind
In recent years, there’s been no shortage of commentary on European anti-Americanism and the divide between Americans and Europeans on a number of issues—religion, most of all. The reasons...
