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Icarus Descending

Aaron Kheriaty
“She’ll never see the boy falling out of the sky,” sings Mumford & Sons in “Icarus.” As the sun was receding from view, Icarus at least realized that his wings had melted and he was plummeting…

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Most Americans seem to think of the major Protestant denominations as if they were founded with the…

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Humanae Vitae remains alive, if not entirely well, fifty-eight years after its promulgation. When Pope Paul VI…

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Cambridge, October 1964. A new undergraduate named Mary Hoffman is sitting in the corner at a party,…

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I was introduced to the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s after they were already over. As…

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