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Is Anonymity Still a Thing?
The literary world is atwitter this week with the revelation of the real identity of Elena Ferrante,…
Infantilism and Anti-Paternalism
John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (Politics of Virtue, 17) claim that “politics should revert to its ancient…
Disembedding
John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (Politics of Virtue, 47) observe that the liberal state claims to release…
Scarcity
Scarcity is one of the central premises of economic theory. John Milbank and Adrian Pabst see the…
Your Brain On Paper
Matthew Crawford (The World Beyond Your Head) observes that we can do simple mathematics in our heads.…
Can Conservatives be at Home on Campus?
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive Universityby jon a. shields and joshua m. dunn…
Not Religion v. Science
Imagine, Peter Harrison suggests at the beginning of The Territories of Science and Religion, a historian who…
God’s Gift to God
1 Chronicles 17 is the Chronicler’s account of the Davidic covenant, Yahweh’s commitment to the Davidic dynasty.…
Christ’s Two Feet
Wild promises of a “Francis Effect” have not materialized. Certain traveling salesmen have used the catchphrase to…
David Frum’s Memory
If you need a reason for why a fair portion of conservative voters were disenchanted enough with…
Evangelical Universities, Activism, and the Life of the Mind
I have made no secret of my disagreement with the historical and theological reasoning Mark Noll employed…
The Powerless Poor
It’s a truism of Old Testament studies that “poverty” in the Bible isn’t merely an economic condition.…
Evangelicals, Heresy, and Scripture Alone
Back in 2014, LifeWay Research published a worrying study that suggested most Evangelicals hold views the early…
The Realism We Need
Realism is in the air. Not the realism we need—not a clear-eyed appreciation of the dangers facing…
School Exodus
Allison Benedikt doesn’t know me, but she thinks I’m a bad person. Not “murderer bad,” mind you.…
