American Politics
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Taking A Life
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by katha pollitt picador, 272 pages, $25 It’s easy to be a charitable…
Hitting the Gym
I am not attracted to the men at the gym; I just want to look like them. As…
The Screen and the Book
Books are solid. This is at once a physical description and a metaphysical one, and it is…
Radical Rupture
The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution by john w. compton harvard, 272 pages, $45 The Constitution…
Heavenly Treasure
The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288…
Orthodox Terrorism
Long before Russia’s annexation of Crimea and unproclaimed war in the Donbass, Ukraine had become a religious…
Conservatives and Low-Skilled Workers
People in the Republican establishment have been suggesting that conservatives can either try to appeal to working-class…
What the White House’s Opposition to “Conversion Therapy” Means
In early April, the Obama administration responded to an online petition calling for a “Leelah’s Law” that…
When We Cared
Today, we mark the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. On April 24th, 1915, the nationalist Young…
How the Constitution was Defeated in 1788
In a parallel universe, the United States of America is somewhere still governed under the Articles of…
Can Politicians Responsibly Discuss the Risks of War?
Will the 2016 election be about foreign policy? And, if it is, can non-interventionist conservatives win that…
NCAA Announces New Commission to Apply Fouling Rules to Religious Freedom Disputes
NCAA President Mark Emmert has announced a new commission to study how its handling of fouls called…
AI Machines: Things Not Persons
Transhumanists insist that we are quickly approaching the moment at which technology will become an unstoppable and…
A Throne in the Grave
Last Sunday, Western Christians celebrated Easter, and in a few days Eastern churches will observe Pascha. Over…
Incoherence, Petulance, and Obama’s Middle East Policy
The Obama administration’s Middle East policy is becoming something worse than a failure. It is turning into…
