While the U.S. remains the 800-pound gorilla in international relations, not everything occurring in the international realm comes in response to events in the U.S. This goes double for events in the Middle East. Reports that Saudi Arabia maintains current high production levels of oil despite . . . . Continue Reading »
I will start out politely, with the traditional As-salaam-u alaykum, peace be to you, and I will even use the title you have given yourself, and I will try to keep this note brief, for I can only imagine the press of your days, what with trying to manage a nascent state, and a fractious staff, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Fighting Terrorism with Transcendence
Gracey Olmstead, American Conservative
While We Were Out
Daniel Schwindt, Distributist Review
The New Dignity: Gnostic, Elitist, Self-Destructive Will-to-Power
Roberta Green Ahmanson, Public Discourse
Forensic Psuedoscience
Nathan J. Robinson, Boston Review
How France’s Leaders Failed Its People
Michel Houellebecq, New York Times
God banished from Downton Abbey, says show's historical advisor
Patrick Foster, Telegraph
Accepting Woodrow Wilson's Failures without Erasing History
Christine Emba, Washington Post
We Value Experience: Can a Secret Society Become a Business?
Rick Paulas, Longreads
Björn Odendahl, an editor at Katholisch.de, writes the following in the course of commenting on the Pope's plans for Africa in a piece entitled “The Romantic, Poor Church”:So also in Africa. Of course the Church is growing there. It grows because the people are socially dependent and . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans once regarded socialism with a mixture of fear and bemusement. Why then have so many lost this fear such that they are prepared to put a socialist in the Oval Office? Continue Reading »
The Syrian refugee crisis has metastasized to a crisis for more than just the refugees. With at least one of the terrorists responsible for the slaughter of innocents in Paris having gained European entry from among the cohort of evacuees fleeing the Levant, the fear that the refugee crisis could . . . . Continue Reading »
It is Christmas Eve, and Olivia Pope, star of the ABC melodrama Scandal is about to get an abortion. In an episode that aired Thursday night, she lays in the operating bed while the music of “Silent Night” plays. We watch her face run through the emotions of anxiety, uncertainty, and pain while . . . . Continue Reading »
What Polls Can't Tell Us about Faith in America
Jody Avirgan, Emma Green, Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight
English is not Normal
John McWhorter, Aeon
What Can We Do as Muslims in Wake of #ParisAttacks?
Saud Inam, Patheos
Art for All of Us? Greek Tragedy and War Veterans
Sarah Ruden, Books and Culture
The Illusion of Respectability
Allen Guelzo, Christianity Today
Where the Safe Things Are
Rek LeCounte, Token Dissonance
All Valid Law is Analogical
Graham McAleer, Library of Law and Liberty
Dinner Invitations Yes, but also Sharing Houses
Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship
As I rode the train to DC for Yuval Levin’s lecture last week, I read Haunted Castles, a volume of gothic stories by Ray Russell. The volume includes his famous sibilant tales, Sardonicus, Sagittarius
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