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Bloody Monday and Other Atrocities

Peter J. Leithart

Will Herberg (Protestant Catholic Jew) summarizes the American response to the growth of the Irish Catholic population…

What Rational Choice Theory Misses

Peter J. Leithart

At the end of his story of Texas Christianity (Rough Country), Robert Wuthnow assesses the strengths and…

First Links—7.27.15

The Editors

The Dominican Option and the Common GoodC. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika The Flesh Made Word: Tattoos, Transgression,…

No Temple

Peter J. Leithart

A city descends from heaven (Revelation 21:9ff). It’s laid out as a cube, like the Most Holy…

Student Essay Contest Winner: First Place

Jimmy Myers

Congratulations to Jimmy Myers for winning first place in our first annual Student Essay Contest. Below is…

Student Essay Contest Winner: Second Place

Ben Woodfinden

Congratulations to Ben Woodfinden for winning second place in our first annual Student Essay Contest. Below is…

Don’t Pray?

Dominic Bouck

Another heartbreaking mass shooting happened late Thursday evening, in Lafayette, Louisiana. As of now it appears two…

Dr. Krauthammer’s Passionate Muddle

Matthew J. Franck

Recent revelations that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in human organs—obtained from unborn children killed in the organization’s…

The Future of Evangelicalism

Greg Forster

Patheos has just published a symposium on the future of evangelicalism in the next five years. I’m…

First Links—7.23.15

The Editors

The Different Social Visions of Liberals and ConservativesYuval Levin, Daily Signal Chicago’s Amusement Tax Samuel A. Rosado,…

Divine Craftsman

Peter J. Leithart

In Making Good, Trevor Hart summarizes an earlier vision of artistry as craftsmanship: “a human activity of skilled…

Satan Bound and Loosed

Peter J. Leithart

The sequence of events in Revelation 20 has some puzzles. Jesus has defeated the beast and the…

Headless Kings

Peter J. Leithart

After the dragon is bound in the abyss, John next sees thrones (Revelation 20:4). His description of…

Bourdieu’s Language Games

Peter J. Leithart

Jeannine Verdes-Leroux doesn’t like Pierre Bourdieu, not one bit. In her Deconstructing Pierre Bourdieu, she calls him…

The Coming of the Age of Gibberish

Carl R. Trueman

Every now and then I read something which seems to capture the spirit of the age. A…