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by Mark Movsesian The West sees Boko Haram as anti-women. But that’s a relatively minor part of the story. Boko Haram is not principally anti-women, but anti-Christian.
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The West sees Boko Haram as anti-women. But that’s a relatively minor part of the story. Boko Haram is not principally anti-women, but anti-Christian.
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According to the Planned Parenthood, just 3 percent of its services are abortion related. So why are so many clinics closing? Continue Reading »
Today marks the feast day of St. Bonaventure, the seraphic doctor. Unlike Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure represents the synthesis of medieval Augustinian mysticism. For this reason, he can be particularly challenging to interpret. Reading him is worth the labor. In Bonaventure one glimpses the . . . . Continue Reading »
The State of the American Dog
Tom Junod, Esquire
And Now: The Criminalization of Parenthood
Radley Balko, Washington Post
The Culture Warrior in Winter
Tiffany Stanley, National Journal
Books Are Alive
Ned Resnikoff, The Baffler
Cool Istanbul
Kate Havard, Weekly Standard
Christopher W. Mitchell was a scholar of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien who directed The Wade Center at Wheaton College for many years. Wesley Hill remembers him as a good friend. Continue Reading »
God Lives on Lemon Street
Scott Cheshire, Harper’s
Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker
In Defense of Fanny Price
Tara Isabella Burton, Paris Review
Carrie White Will Never Die
Eve Tushnet, American Conservative
The Tea Party’s New Front in the American Culture Wars: Literature
Adam Kirsch, Tablet
On the 210th anniversary of the most famous duel in American history, some reflections on America’s public religion. Continue Reading »
Why all the vitriol? Why all the talk of coercion? Continue Reading »
Vatican Says There Will Be No “Two Popes Final” for the World Cup
The Straits Times
‘Human Props’ Stay in Luxury Homes but Live like Ghosts
Drew Harwell, Tampa Bay Times
Describing a Visual World Without Vision
Jessica Love, The American Scholar
The Mortality of Paper
Elizabeth Yale, The Atlantic
The Race to Stop Africa’s Elephant Poachers
Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine
Dissenting opinions in the Hobby Lobby case and the editorials penned in reaction to the Wheaton injunction fixate on reproductive rights. Specifically, many argue that women have an incontrovertible right to the full breadth of contraceptive care, including IUDs and the morning after pill (everything approved by the FDA). To assert a right, though, is not to establish itand these assertions cannot withstand scrutiny. Continue Reading »