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First Links—8.17.15

The Editors

The Way We Speak NowGracy Olmstead, The American Conservative The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff and…

Complacent City

Peter J. Leithart

John condemns harlot Babylon for her luxury. The Greek word is strenos, which is used only once…

Anti-Catholicism and Religious Freedom

Peter J. Leithart

John Pinheiro’s Missionaries of Republicanism is, according to the subtitle, a “religious history of the Mexican-American War.” He…

Unique Minority

Peter J. Leithart

In a contribution to the 1988 volume, Eliminating Racism, Thomas Pettigrew explained the uniqueness of the African-American experience,…

The Demographics of Exile

Peter J. Leithart

When Israel was deported to Babylonian exile, it would have been natural for Israelites to reason that…

A Neoliberal Faith

Mark Bauerlein

This morning at the 3 West Club in New York City, Senator Marco Rubio gave a speech and…

First Links—8.14.15

The Editors

The Habit of Seeing God Face to Face Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing Today in Christian History…

Race and Rootedness

Peter J. Leithart

Charles Bambach’s Heidegger’s Roots is an attempt to trace the roots of Heidegger’s affinity for Naziism. The “roots”…

Cities Ascending and Descending

Peter J. Leithart

The Bible ends with a vision of the descent of a jeweled bridal city Jerusalem descending from…

Sociality in Modern Cities

Peter J. Leithart

Since Ferdinant Toennies introduced the categories, sociologists have often contrasted the gemeinschaftlich forms of social life in traditional…

We’re all sadists now

Carl R. Trueman

An article on campus sexual mores by Rod Dreher this week drove me to reflect on who…

First Links—8.13.15

The Editors

“Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of ToleranceBen R. Crenshaw, Public Discourse The Unknown Newton: A SymposiumEditors, The…

Anti-Labor, Anti-Catholic

Peter J. Leithart

David Sehat argues (The Myth of American Religious Freedom) that the American moral establishment was undermined by…

Myth and the Fragmentation of Humanity

Peter J. Leithart

Paganism, writes Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (Christian Future), “is best understood . . . as primitive man’s response to…

The End For Which God Made Us

Peter J. Leithart

“The patristic concept of theosis is the most precise and compendious possible evocation of the end for…