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Taken, Blessed, Broken, Given
The poultry donation had arrived, completely frozen, two hours before dinner was to begin. “Get three cutting…
Scarcity
Scarcity is one of the central premises of economic theory. John Milbank and Adrian Pabst see the…
Your Brain On Paper
Matthew Crawford (The World Beyond Your Head) observes that we can do simple mathematics in our heads.…
Nature Without Us
In his The Territories of Science and Religion, Peter Harrison gives examples of the shift that took…
Ranking Arnie
How do you rank the best golfers? Tallying up the wins doesn’t tell the whole story. The…
Christianity’s Lost World
Writing in Christianity Today, Timothy C. Morgan reports on an archeological discovery in Kazakhstan, a few dozen…
On the Uses of Tardigrades
John Crowe of the University of California, Davis, may not have built molecular engines, but he’s been…
Is Anonymity Still a Thing?
The literary world is atwitter this week with the revelation of the real identity of Elena Ferrante,…
Infantilism and Anti-Paternalism
John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (Politics of Virtue, 17) claim that “politics should revert to its ancient…
Disembedding
John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (Politics of Virtue, 47) observe that the liberal state claims to release…
Can Conservatives be at Home on Campus?
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive Universityby jon a. shields and joshua m. dunn…
God’s Gift to God
1 Chronicles 17 is the Chronicler’s account of the Davidic covenant, Yahweh’s commitment to the Davidic dynasty.…
Not Religion v. Science
Imagine, Peter Harrison suggests at the beginning of The Territories of Science and Religion, a historian who…
Christ’s Two Feet
Wild promises of a “Francis Effect” have not materialized. Certain traveling salesmen have used the catchphrase to…
David Frum’s Memory
If you need a reason for why a fair portion of conservative voters were disenchanted enough with…
