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The Political Christian
The “Pastor Protection” bill just breezed through the Texas House and Senate with strong bipartisan support, and…
First Links—6.4.15
Habit of a Lifetime: Why Are Increasing Numbers of Women in Britain Becoming Catholic Nuns? India Sturgis,…
Crusoe Errant
Robinson Crusoe suffers enormous hardship before he ever gets to his island, and the hardship seems disproportionate…
Restorative Justice
Howard Zehr makes clear in his Little Book of Restorative Justice that “restorative justice” isn’t a panacea. It…
Gift of Work
RJ Snell’s Acedia is about acedia. But before he gets to his extended analysis of that vice, he offers…
On a cloud
John sees one like a son of man on a cloud, holding a sickle (Revelation 14:14). We…
First Links—6.3.15
Polygamy is More Popular Than Ever Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast A Requiem for the Boy Scouts…
Ideological art
David Goldman (It’s Not the End of the World, It’s Just the End of You) argues that…
Abrahamic South
David Goldman (It’s Not the End of the World, It’s Just the End of You) claims that…
Chivalry After Christendom
Once, writes Mark Greengrass (Christendom Destroyed), “Nobility existed to defend Christendom by force of arms. Knighthood was…
The Invention of Pedigree
The peerage seems a near-eternal fixture of European society, but Mark Greengrass (Christendom Destroyed) argues that it…
The Debt Society
Mark Greengrass (Christendom Destroyed) observes that nearly everyone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe was in debt at…
“I Don’t Find Dignity in Taking My Own Life”
Imagine receiving a letter telling you that while your insurance company won’t pay for experimental drugs to…
Freedom Is . . . a Sexual Ponzi Scheme?
An article in the Washington Post last week (“How to break free from monogamy without destroying marriage”) described…
A New Book on the Armenian Genocide
This year, on its hundredth anniversary, the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has received unusually prominent and long overdue…
