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The Right Tax to Support Education
The Obama administration dropped its call for taxes on 529 college savings plans. These tax-preferred savings vehicles…
Brother v. Brother
When the original creation is set up, there are three zones in the material creation: heaven, earth,…
Visibility by the Spirit
In one of the essays in Word and Church, John Webster acknowledges that there is a danger of…
Catholics and Evangelicals
Gregg Allison is well-positioned to offer an “evangelical assessment” of Roman Catholic Theology & Practice. Now a professor…
Pure Gift and Promise
Since Mauss re-discovered the truism that there ain’t no such thing as a free gift, philosophers and…
On Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today is the observance of International Holocaust Memorial Day. It falls on the seventieth anniversary of the…
In Turkey, the Clash of Civilizations Continues
In academic and policymaking circles in the West, one hears a great deal about universal human rights.…
First Links — 1.27.15
Europe: Too Old for its own Truths and Victories? Rémi Brague, The Clarion Review When Artists Fear…
Hierarchy and Oppression
To punish Israel’s sins, Yahweh threatens to remove “the whole supply of bread and the whole supply…
Living the Movies
In the NYTBR, the redoubtable Tom Shone reviews a couple of recent books that explore the borderlands…
Primes
Alec Wilkinson’s New Yorker profile of mathematician Yitang Zhang is a fascinating character sketch and an introduction to…
Portrait of the Artist
Many things contribute to the fidgety discomfort one feels one reading Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. There’s our…
“Save the Earth, Don’t Give Birth”
Two days ago, the annual West Coast March for Life took place in downtown San Francisco, with…
First Links—1.26.15
Small is Bountiful Tim Wu, The New Yorker How I Pray: Sr. Mary Catharine Perry, O.P. Thomas…
Rape and Consolatio
In a 2013 article in Augustinian Studies, Melanie Webb argues that Augustine challenged a deeply entrenched Roman…
