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Dragon By Sea
Enraged but exhausted in his fruitless attempts to destroy the woman, the dragon takes a stand on…
Spirit of the Future
Christoph Schwobel (Recent Developments in Trinitarian Theology, 31-3) claims that because God is the “unoriginate originating cause”…
Crime, Race, and Racism
I want to come back to accusations that my column discussing Ferguson, Missouri is animated by racism. I…
Basic Goods
Patrick Lee and Robert George offer a sharp critique of various forms of naturalist defense of traditional…
How Adam Came To Be
Masudi’s 10th-century Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems gives the history of the world from Eden to…
Revisionary Metaphysics
In his wise, wide-ranging contribution to Recent Developments in Trinitarian Theology, Christoph Schwobel argues that trinitarian theology necessitates…
Marriage and Mating Rites
If marriage is a sacrament, then the way in which practices that lead to marriage function as…
Our Tired Scripts
Yesterday I made observations about the sad way events in Ferguson followed a familiar script. Some readers responded…
From Ferguson to Staten Island
My web exclusive yesterday took up that oft-repeated script we saw enacted in Ferguson, Missouri—police violence against young…
City of Peace
Justin Marozzi’s recently released Baghdad vividly recounts the glory and anguish of a city that was, for several…
Feasts
In his book on Dogma and Preaching, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger reflected on the value of Christian festivity: “A Christian…
Bearing the Whole People
“I along am not able to carry all this people,” Moses says when Israel complains about hunger…
Self-Referential Cinema
Jeff Menne argues that the films of Francis Ford Coppola are films about the business of film, and…
Fragrance of Joseph
The Ishmaelites who carry Joseph to Egypt are carrying “aromatic gum, balm, and myrrh” with them (Genesis…
Geek Sublime
James Gleick’s NYTBR review of Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime places the book in the context of CP Snow’s…
