History’s Pro Tips on Iran
Nothing in human experience compares to the wars of the last 120 years. Their scope has grown as the world has shrunk. The international laws governing conduct in war…
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How Hipsters Gave Us Trump
Gen Zeal
Everyone assures us that we enjoy the blessings of progress: Capitalism has produced great material wealth, modern…
Epstein’s Revelations
Far from a mere sordid distraction or an endless supply of tabloid slop, the Epstein files may…
When the Bells Stop Ringing
Some years ago, I was a resident at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, a small postindustrial…
How Kanye Went Nazi
Last year, Kanye West—sometimes known as Ye—released a song titled “Nigga Heil Hitler.” The music video featured…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
Will Trump Need to Compromise with Iran?
War-making is a dynamic enterprise. Military successes and failures change the circumstances of conflict. That’s certainly the…
The Donatist Comeback
My Lenten reading has included an interesting, if somewhat odd, book about the greatest of the Latin…
The Art of Arguing Well
Mastering the Four Arguments:The Classical Art of Persuasive Writingby gregory roperencounter books, 192 pages, $29.99 A major…
History’s Pro Tips on Iran
Nothing in human experience compares to the wars of the last 120 years. Their scope has grown…
The Qur’an’s Christians
Hollywood released quite a few movies about Jesus in the 1960s and ’70s. Not all got rave…
Goodbye to the Postwar Consensus
The debates of the past year or two surrounding the Second World War have exposed fault lines…
How to Bring Back School Prayer
Though it was overshadowed by the reversal of Roe v. Wade the Friday before, the Supreme Court’s…
Living with Wittgenstein
In the autumn of 1944, Ludwig Wittgenstein noticed a young doctoral student in attendance at his lectures…
Mainlining Nostalgia
Ryan Burge is unignorable. A political scientist known for his “graphs about religion,” Burge is required reading…
Witch Hunt
In the musical Wicked, the familiar story of The Wizard of Oz is retold from the perspective…
That by which we rise
That by which we riseis that by which we fall. This comes as no surprise at all.But paradox…
Homer’s Childhood
When Homer was a little boy,He never had a single toy.All his play was in his mind;In…
A Small Hotel in Florence
Two twin-like English sisters ran the place. When we checked in, one asked, “Is it the case .…
An Offer We Must Refuse
In his masterwork, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche’s mythic hero carries a message—“God is dead!”…
Constitutional Freedom
Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Phillip to his friends, among whom I count myself) is a rising star at…
The Book of Judges
Recent events have brought the ordinarily neglected subject of judicial duty to the front pages…
Freedom By Association
In New York City, about one hundred and fifty churches and religious groups—many of them serving poor…
Breaking the Law, Bending the Law
Federal Judge John E. Sprizzo will never again be promoted or advanced, for he has committed an…
Taking Religious Freedom Seriously
Passage of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment…
