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Coronavirus and the New Human Agenda
In 2017, the smart set was praising Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. (Blurbs provided by President Obama, Bill Gates, and The Guardian.) In it,...
Advent in the Deathworks
Ryszard Legutko observes in The Demon in Democracy that the cultured despisers of religion will not rest until they have leveled every aspect of human life. He explains their...
I Am Lonely
I am lonely.” Like Joseph B. Soloveitchik in The Lonely Man of Faith, I am lonely. Not because “I am alone,” for I “enjoy the love and friendship of...
How Songs Like Macklemore’s “Same Love” Change the Marriage Debate
As I write, YouTube reports almost 50 million views of the music video for “Same Love” by the hip hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a single recorded to...
Amiable Atheism
In its marketing campaign, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible was presented as something akin to the emancipation of Daedalus and Icarus in their winged escape from Crete. Just...
