How can ISIS’s Caliph al-Baghdadi vindicate such deeds, raping and enslaving non-Muslim women? The answer is most likely that he cites sacred texts to support his acts, along with revered precedents. Continue Reading »
The Habit of Seeing God Face to Face
Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing
Today in Christian History
Editors, Christian History Institute
My Father's Hiroshima
William Van Ornum, America
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Holy Writ
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative
In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas
Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times
This morning at the 3 West Club in New York City, Senator Marco Rubio gave a speech and answered questions on American foreign policy. He focused on Cuba and Iran, and the discussion turned mostly on specific policy actions the Senator might take if he does win the White House next year. Continue Reading »
“Shut Up, Bigot!”: The Intolerance of Tolerance
Ben R. Crenshaw, Public Discourse
The Unknown Newton: A Symposium
Editors, The New Atlantis
Sex is More and Less Important than You Think
Trevin Wax, The Gospel Coalition
Good Country People
Jake Bittle, The Point
Perhaps the most significant prophet of this present age was neither Marx, Nietzsche, nor Freud. Continue Reading »
Not Clowning Around
Abe Streep, New Yorker.
The Poverty of Liberal Economics
Adrian Walker, The Imaginative Conservative.
Conservatism, Free Markets, and America's Post-Obama Economy
Samuel Gregg, Public Discourse.
Does it Matter if Presidents Talk About God?
Gary Scott Smith, The University Bookman.
Tragedy of the American Dreamland
Rod Dreher, The American Conservative.
Why Animal Lovers Should Abhor Planned Parenthood
Mary Eberstadt, National Review.
The Moral Conservatism of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Russell Kirk, Imaginative Conservative.
Community Conquers Culture
David Mathis, Desiring God.
It was a rainy Tuesday morning in June. I remember pounding rain on a copper roof outside my window; sheets of water splattering as a city darkened and pealing thunder brought with it the full force of a summer rainstorm; then fierce pain. Continue Reading »
We need to cultivate good habits. Continue Reading »
The Futility of Their Minds
Bevil Bramwell, OMI, The Catholic Thing
A Year of Racial Tumult Brings Potent Lessons to the Classroom
Dan Berrett, The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Bizarre Tale of ‘ISIS Book Club'
Damaris Colhoun, Atlas Obscura
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 Years Later
Benjamin Wiker, National Catholic Register
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