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Understanding the Election: The How and the Why of 2016

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Political scientists James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney, Jr., take a hard look at the 2016 election, adding another book to their series of insightful election analyses.

Recovering America’s Vital Center: Between Religious Nationalism and Radical Secularism

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The antidote to hyper-partisanship is a recovery of America’s tradition of civil religion. A new book by Philip Gorski takes up this difficult and subtle project.

Capitalism and the Quest for Community

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Defenders of capitalism need a more humane anthropology, sensitive to man’s social and communal nature, lest they forget to ask the crucial question of what economics is for.

The Sufis: Islam’s Anti-Terrorists

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Westerners tend to think Islam’s recent trajectory is one of resurgent Wahhabi-inspired extremism, but growing numbers of Muslims are adopting Sufi practices that promote peace, hope, and harmony among religions.

The Urgency of Restoring the Biblical Values of America’s Founders

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Our nation was founded on biblical principles as a haven for devoutly religious dissidents. We forget our Judeo-Christian origins and the founders’ commitment to freedom of religion at our peril.

Pittsburgh, Not Paris: Explaining the Climate Hysteria

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When President Trump announced his exit from the Paris Climate Accord, the usual suspects responded with their usual agitation and doomsaying. How can so many people subscribe to an idea—and so vehemently—that rests on so little?

Suppose You Were an Idiot: On the Importance of Acknowledging Incompetence

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Political theory typically attributes political action to one of two main motivations: idealism or self-interest. But incompetence plays a much larger role than many assume.

What’s in a Name? Why Christians Should Be Wary of the Word “Transgender”

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The Christian worldview accepts the validity of people’s testimony that gender dysphoria is a real experience resulting in heartrending distress. The Christian worldview cannot, however, countenance the idea that men can become women or that women can become men.

A Life Well Spent: Learning from John Noonan

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With the recent passing of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., Americans would do well to honor and remember his example of respectful engagement over fundamental moral issues.

The Accessible Federalist: Historical Documents and Human Nature

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Although The Federalist is indeed a historical document that emerged from and was directed to a particular time period with particular concerns, historical sensitivity itself should also lead one to view The Federalist as something more than this. Adapted from the introduction to The Accessible Federalist.

Hard Texts and Interfaith Peace: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s Not in God’s Name

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In his new book, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks argues that the solution for religious violence must come from religion itself.

Bellevue: The Best and the Worst of America

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Bellevue reflects the worst and the best not just of its disadvantaged patients, its physicians, and its students, but of the American democratic project.

What Is Legalism?

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Contemporary legalism downplays, ignores, and occasionally denigrates the “rules” of morality in favor of mercy, accompaniment, and integration, because it fails to see that there is an essential and constitutive relationship between morality and human flourishing.

Commander in Chief: War, Foreign Affairs, and the Constitutional Power to Impeach a President

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The framers deliberately designed a strong presidency with the power to wage war with energy, secrecy, and dispatch. Impeachment, in turn, was designed to be a formidable congressional check on the formidable powers of the president—power counteracting power, ambition checking ambition.

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and “The Very Mercy of the Law”

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Both principle and prudence are necessary if “the very mercy of the law” is to be achieved.

May I Please Speak to My Daddy?

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This world does not need men to selfishly take whatever we want, especially if the price is the welfare of our children. Our children don’t need superheroes—just quiet, unsung, ordinary, everyday heroes who answer to the name “Daddy.”

Out of the Ashes: Anthony Esolen’s Clarion Call to Restore Culture, Faith, and Sanity

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Anthony Esolen’s new book offers a bracing diagnosis and prescription for contemporary American culture.

Your Marriage: You Have No Idea of the Good You Are Doing

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None of us can truly gauge the impact of our lives on others.

Protectionism and a Universal Basic Income Won’t Solve Our Economic Problems

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For both economic and spiritual reasons, a basic income guarantee isn’t the solution to widespread unemployment due to new technology.

Trump, Hamilton, and Pro-Choice Dog Parades

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Even the deepest hypocrisies can’t change the fact that we are designed for love.

Remembering Jane Roe and Mary Doe: The Courage of Norma McCorvey and Sandra Cano

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The shameful and irrational desire on the part of the Courts to reach decisions in Roe and Doe with no evidence—and without even knowing if the women in whose names the cases were brought actually wanted abortions—was later exposed by the courage of these two women.

Reclaiming Hope—and Intellectual Honesty: A Christian’s Insider View of the Obama Administration

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Reclaiming Hope is an excellent book that deserves a wide reading, especially by rising activists and statesmen seeking to find ways to make their faith relevant in an increasingly post-Christian world.

Identity Studies in Service of a Classical Education

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A classical education should help students to see how their many identities can and should be integrated according to right reason so that they can develop those life-giving friendships necessary for a full and fulfilling life, most importantly, of course, their friendship with God.

The Death of Unconditional Love

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When unconditional love is missing, self-centeredness expands, and sin rushes in to fill the void.
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