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Lawn Care Spiritualized

I tell friends: Nobody with a riding lawnmower needs to be justified. My 42-inch Sears Craftsman gives me all the salvation I can handle. Continue Reading »

Whit Stillman among the Janeites

His adaptation of Lady Susan downplays a key fact: Austen’s women jockey among themselves for status and power. Men may be the prizes, but they’re not the point. Continue Reading »

The Smartphone and the Virgin

Updating Henry Adams's famous meditation on technology and tradition. Continue Reading »

Women’s-Only Swimming Hours: Accommodation Is Not Discrimination

Institutions offering separate women-only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences. They embrace pluralism rather than impose secularism. Continue Reading »

A Cinematic Lesson in Hope

At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right—ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence by ideological fanatics; feckless responses to both from the democracies—it’s good to be reminded that things can be different, and in fact were different, . . . . Continue Reading »

Obergefell and the New Gnosticism

For decades, the Sexual Revolution was supposed to be about freedom. Today, it is about coercion. Once, it sought to free our sexual choices from restrictive laws and unwanted consequences. Now, it seeks to free our sexual choices from other people's disapproval. Continue Reading »

An Inquisition Is Not a Witch-Hunt

Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »

If the Church Were a Haven

Reflections on Orlando and Obergefell. Continue Reading »

Bystanders to Genocide

“Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?”
—Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939

Very Well, Alone?

A serious push for British independence is such a challenge to the new, supranational Europe that it throws the whole system out of gear.
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