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Trump Is a Fool
Donald Trump is a fool—not because he is wrong about so many things, but because he is…
How To Celebrate Easter
Like Patrick Leigh Fermor did: with red eggs and firearms, alongside one’s comrades. From Abducting a General,…
Tribes of the Transjordan
When Israel conquered and settled in Canaan, two and a half tribes settled on the eastern side…
Losing Face
In his 2013 book, Saving Face, Stephen Pattison observes that infants very quickly begin to notice and…
De-Aristotelianizing Plato
Between 1900 and 1960, scholars believed that Plato held to a “cosmological” view of the divine, the…
Roland on the Secret Soul
I was, it seemed, standing in my garden, gazing through shifting silvery curtains of mist at the…
Epic Ending
Inside Paradise Lostby david quintprinceton, 344 pages, $35 Early on in Inside Paradise Lost, David Quint writes…
First Links — 4.1.16
Risen and Not Undead (or, Why Jesus is Not a Zombie)Rebecca Bratten Weiss, Patheos Monks And At-Risk…
Breaking the Contract
Ryan Leif Hansen (Silence and Praise) describes Roman imperial religion as a social contract that bound the…
Son of Pain
Sara Japhet (I and II Chronicles) notes the “unusual” structure of the etiological story behind the name…
Sterilizing Marriage
In his powerful manifesto, Nation of Bastards, Douglas Farrow argues that the Kulturkampf in which we find…
Repairs at the Holy Sepulcher
Here is a little good news about Mideast Christians, for a change. Last week, the three principal…
Humiliation, Exaltation, Priesthood
“You are fairer than the sons of men,” says the court poet to the king in Psalm…
Art of Politics
In his reflections on Carl Schmitt, Paul W. Kahn (Political Theology) contrasts Enlightenment political rationalism to Schmitt’s…
Gender Totalitarianism
Gabrielle Kuby argues in her wide-ranging book on The Global Sexual Revolution that the goal of the…
