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Federal Marijuana Policy Undermines Rule of Law
Federal marijuana policies subvert the rule of law in two ways: First, the law as currently written…
Purity System
In her contribution to The Peace of God, Amy Remensnyder examines the eleventh-century crackdown on simony, clerical…
Purity System
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Nature’s Nation
Americans have often justified American order and American exceptionalism by invoking “the myth of nature,” write Robert…
Mary Douglas and Taboo
In a review of Jacob Milgrom’s Anchor Bible Leviticus commentary, Jonathan Klawans provides a helpful summary of…
Felix Culpa
Ingrid D. Rowland reviews several shows and books focusing on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus…
Consider the Fig
Ben Crair wants us to appreciate the fig as more than “a geriatric delicacy or the sticky…
Blinding Wealth
In his Anchor Bible commentary on Revelation (102-3), Craig Koester summarizes the book’s warnings about wealth. On…
Iran’s Nukes
In one of man jaw-dropping reminders in America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Andrew Bacevich notes…
Making Nature More Natural
Nathaniel Rich reviews the Library of America edition of the works of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of…
Binge Drinking
Caitlin Flanagan offers a characteristically searching analysis of the roots of our binge drinking academic, tracing it…
God’s Touch
At a recent Theopolis Institute course on Leviticus, James Jordan argued that the skin disease described in…
God’s Touch
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America At War
“Chicken Fried” by the Zac Brown Band is a paean to everything a Southern man loves—cold beer…
Dressing for Others
A young woman asked whether the seat next to me in the Amtrak car was taken. I…
