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Rage Against the Machine
Camille Paglia nails the reason for the unlikely rise of Bernie-mania. It’s a strike against the “soulless…
Heroes and Hero Worship
In Heroes and Hero-Worship, Thomas Carlyle argues that hero-worship is the source of all religion, including Christianity,…
Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Heroes
Ever since the Maidan revolution of dignity erupted in Kyiv in November 2013, Russian propaganda has been…
Statement on Genocide Against Christians in Iraq and Syria
In the name of decency, humanity, and truth, we call on President Barack Obama, Secretary of State…
The Icon Painter
What is the role of the icon painter? We can only begin to answer this question by…
Why Trumpkins Ignore Their Betters
Last week in the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens had a column entitled “The Trumpkins’ Lament.” Here…
Know Nothings and the Republican Coalition
The nativist Know Nothing movement—officially known as the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, and as the…
Three Forms of Tyranny
Tyranny is a constant in human history, argues Waller Newell in his forthcoming Tyrants. But the character…
2/3/1974
During February and March of 1974, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick experienced a series of mystical…
The Body’s Lessons
Maybe it was during my first-ever sleepover, on a farm, that my little hostess, innocently sharing a…
Thrown in the World
Purity: A Novel by jonathan franzen farrar, straus and giroux, 563 pages, $28 An awful lot of…
Wilderness Sins
In his typological reading of the exodus (1 Corinthians 10), Paul warns the Corinthians not to commit…
The Other Internet
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distractionby matthew b. crawfordfarrar,…
Remembering James Foley
Of all the images symbolizing our post 9/11 world, few are more searing than the video of…
The Nomination Debate
A week ago, the White House confirmed President Obama’s intentions to “fulfill his constitutional responsibility to nominate…
