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First Links—8.17.15
The Way We Speak NowGracy Olmstead, The American Conservative The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff and…
Complacent City
John condemns harlot Babylon for her luxury. The Greek word is strenos, which is used only once…
Anti-Catholicism and Religious Freedom
John Pinheiro’s Missionaries of Republicanism is, according to the subtitle, a “religious history of the Mexican-American War.” He…
Unique Minority
In a contribution to the 1988 volume, Eliminating Racism, Thomas Pettigrew explained the uniqueness of the African-American experience,…
The Demographics of Exile
When Israel was deported to Babylonian exile, it would have been natural for Israelites to reason that…
A Neoliberal Faith
This morning at the 3 West Club in New York City, Senator Marco Rubio gave a speech and…
First Links—8.14.15
The Habit of Seeing God Face to Face Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing Today in Christian History…
Race and Rootedness
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
The Bible ends with a vision of the descent of a jeweled bridal city Jerusalem descending from…
Sociality in Modern Cities
Since Ferdinant Toennies introduced the categories, sociologists have often contrasted the gemeinschaftlich forms of social life in traditional…
We’re all sadists now
An article on campus sexual mores by Rod Dreher this week drove me to reflect on who…
First Links—8.13.15
“Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of ToleranceBen R. Crenshaw, Public Discourse The Unknown Newton: A SymposiumEditors, The…
Anti-Labor, Anti-Catholic
David Sehat argues (The Myth of American Religious Freedom) that the American moral establishment was undermined by…
Myth and the Fragmentation of Humanity
Paganism, writes Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (Christian Future), “is best understood . . . as primitive man’s response to…
The End For Which God Made Us
“The patristic concept of theosis is the most precise and compendious possible evocation of the end for…