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Conundrums of Choice

Peter J. Leithart

Abortion rights have been defended as a matter of protecting a woman’s right to choose what she…

Fireless Sacrifice

Peter J. Leithart

Drawing from Pindar’s seventh Olympian Ode, Barbara Kowalzig (Singing for the Gods, 230-1) argues that the poem…

New Adam

Peter J. Leithart

A woman clothed in the sun, standing on the moon, crowned with stars, is about to give…

Ideal Languages

Peter J. Leithart

Wittgenstein, Jamie Smith argues, “relativizes the claims of logic without simply rejecting them.” He rejects not logic…

Rorty and Reference

Peter J. Leithart

Jamie Smith (Who’s Afraid of Relativism?) defends Richard Rorty against the charge that he leaves behind an…

Tradition as a Source of Vintage Identity

Betsy Childs Howard

Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador and Alastair Roberts hold a wide ranging conversation on Lent and Evangelical…

A Root Beer Summit?

Andrew T. Walker

A few years back, you may recall a “Beer Summit,” held at the White House, where President…

First Links — 4.4.14

Matthew Cantirino

At Night We Walk in CirclesCharles Carman, Books & Culture Still in the Grip of the Great…

Breeders: A Subclass of Women?

Peter J. Leithart

Jennifer Lahl of the Center for Bioethics and Culturewill show her latest documentary film, Breeders: A Subclass of…

War on Amalekites

Peter J. Leithart

Israel gets its first taste of war after the exodus when the Amalekites attack the women, children,…

Spirits, Stars, Garments

Peter J. Leithart

The letter to the angel of Sardis (Revelation 3:1-6) is smoothly cohesive in theme.  Jesus begins with…

Open Door

Peter J. Leithart

Jesus has the key of David to open and shut (Revelation 3:8). He puts an “open door”…

How Plants Think

Peter J. Leithart

The always-fascinating Oliver Sacks takes a break from his human patients to review several recent and old…

Between Mother and Dragon

Peter J. Leithart

John sees two signs in heaven (Revelation 12), a woman and a dragon. Sharply different as they…

City of Language

Peter J. Leithart

In Who’s Afraid of Relativism?, his recent brief for Christian pragmatism as a philosophy of contingency and creaturehood,…