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Would you sacrifice yourself for Iraq?

Peter J. Leithart

Why do we talk about patriotism in religious terms? asks Ivan Strenski (in a Library of Social Science…

Singing the Apocalypse

Peter J. Leithart

Revelation seems to be the province of fundamentalists, dispensationalists, popapocalyptics. It’s far too cartoonish, stark, violent, demanding…

Slaughterhouse of the World

Peter J. Leithart

Yahweh brings a devastating judgment on His own people and on Edom, slaughtering and destroying them. He…

God the Last Thing

Peter J. Leithart

God only speaks twice directly to the reader in Revelation, Craig Koester points out (Revelation and the…

Conceit of Humanitarianism

Peter J. Leithart

You get the gist of Rajan Menon’s argument from the title of his forthcoming book: The Conceit of…

Mapping Jane Austen

Peter J. Leithart

Janine Barchas (Matters of Fact in Jane Austen) says that Austen’s world had a nascent celebrity culture.…

Pope Packer

Wesley Hill

J. I. Packer: An Evangelical Life by leland ryken crossway, 432 pages, $30 I f Evangelical Protestants…

Saudi Oil: It’s Not about North Dakota, It’s about ISIS

James R. Rogers

While the U.S. remains the 800-pound gorilla in international relations, not everything occurring in the international realm…

Weak Goals at Notre Dame

Francesca Aran Murphy

Following on from my article about the Curriculum Review at the University of Notre Dame, I can report…

Liberalism’s Dilemma

Peter J. Leithart

In The Myth of Liberalism, John Safranek observes that recent Supreme Court decisions identify freedom with autonomy: “both…

Abraham in Shakespeare

Peter J. Leithart

Ken Jackson’s Shakespeare & Abraham is not, he says, “a traditional study of literary borrowing or influence that…

Materialist Idolatry

Peter J. Leithart

Nearly all our terms for immaterial concepts were originally terms for material objects. Words for “spirit” originally…

Yoga at the University

Mark Movsesian

Earlier this month, controversy broke out when a Canadian university canceled a beginners’ yoga class it had…

Thanksgiving as the Basis of Freedom

C. C. Pecknold

Thanksgiving in America is a thing to behold. We vaguely recall its Puritan origins, and vaguely associate…

First Links — 11.25.15

The Editors

Fighting Terrorism with Transcendence Gracey Olmstead, American Conservative While We Were Out Daniel Schwindt, Distributist Review The…