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Confident Pluralism Indeed
As the breakdown in civic discourse continues apace, it is refreshing to read John Inazu’s Confident Pluralism:…
Euphemisms for Killing
Words matter. The terminology we employ not only reflects our values but helps to define them. Language…
DysUtopian Literature
In his study of The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature, Keith Booker observes that “much of the…
Choosing Apocalyptics
In the closing chapter of Heaven on Earth, Richard Landes considers the import of the two major…
First Links — 5.27.16
How God Messed Up My Happy Atheist LifeNicole Cliffe, Christianity Today Philosophy and Art CriticismKate Havard, Claremont…
Millennial Modernity
According to Richard Landes (Heaven on Earth), traditional societies are organized by a “prime divider,” a boundary…
Spielberg’s Ambivalence
Kristen Thompson devotes several pages of her Apocalyptic Dread, a study of apocalyptic in contemporary film, analyzing…
Varieties of Apocalypse
Richard Landes’s Heaven on Earth is a study of millennial apocalyptic movements, that is, movements that share…
The Semiotics of Transgender Bathroom Signage
It may seem that the transgender bathroom controversy has been covered from every angle, yet one suggestive…
Why I’m Anti-Anti-Trump
It’s time for our political intelligensia to wake up. So argues Walter Russell Mead in a thoughtful…
The Sacrament of the Suffering Body
Felecia Wright McDuffie’s To Our Bodies Turn We Then is a study of Donne’s understanding of the…
Dark Music
Putting “film noir” and “musical” in the same sentence may seem absurd. If any film genre is…
Unchosen Temples
Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think…
Student Writers Wanted
The deadline approaches. If you are currently enrolled in college, a graduate program, or seminary (or even…
The Language of Love
A correspondent recently asked (in a somewhat J’accuse! tone) why I spend all my time writing about…
