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World’s Policeman
Writing at the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins argues that America’s withdrawal from Iraq left the Iraqi Prime Minister…
Dan Brown and Euripides
Oliver Harris begins his TLS review of Theodore Ziolkowski’s Lure of the Arcane by pondering why two million people…
China’s Religious Boom
In a National Interest review of Evan Osnos’s Age of Ambition, Dan Bluemnthal writes that “neither money, nor nationalism…
Climate Change, Religious Change
In his contribution to Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions, Noel Robertson argues that “Archaeology and epic…
First Links — 6.13.14
Brutalism’s Bullies Anthony Paletta, The Awl The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic…
June 13, Catholic Father’s Day
Anthony, O.F.M., age thirty-five, died in Padua on this date in 1231; 352 days later, Pope Gregory…
Structure in Isaiah 63
Isaiah 63 begins with a question: Who is this? He comes from the direction of Edom, his…
Rule-Governed Games
Bernard Suits (The Grasshopper, 24) begins his effort to define the nature of games by distinguishing games…
June 13, Catholic Father’s Day
Anthony, O.F.M., age thirty-five, died in Padua on this date in 1231; 352 days later, Pope Gregory…
June 13, Catholic Father’s Day
Anthony, O.F.M., age thirty-five, died in Padua on this date in 1231; 352 days later, Pope Gregory…
Aporia of Purity
Michael Guichard and Lionel Marti offer an outstanding survey of purity in ancient Mesopotamia in their contribution…
David’s Ephod
David leads the ark procession into Jerusalem wearing a linen ephod (1 Samuel 6). He offers sacrifices…
Paul Our Mother
With surprising regularity, Paul uses material images, often to describe his ministry to the churches. He and…
We Don’t Win
Tom Engelhardt knows that wars can be won and that won wars can change geopolitical conditions: “don’t think for…
Christians at College
In the name of tolerance, colleges are becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate Christian student groups. In an…
