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In the introduction to Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis uses the image of a hall leading to various rooms to explain the relationship of the various Christian communions and traditions with one another and with the fundamental and indispensable commitments that define the contours of Christianity. Continue Reading...

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September 17, 2024

Some Issues Never Die: The 1924 and 2024 Presidential Elections

Historical comparisons rarely offer definitive guides to the present. Such juxtapositions, however, can reveal ways in which conditions from the past persist into the present, thus providing a reminder of the consistency of history. Continue Reading...

September 12, 2024

Bogan Elegy: A Survivor’s Guide to Escaping Suburban Poverty

Now that he’s Donald Trump’s VP pick, I’ve been thinking about J.D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, and my own similar journey from family dysfunction to becoming a relatively healthy human being. Continue Reading...

September 11, 2024

World Trade Center: A Patriotic Film from a Misunderstood Filmmaker

September 11 is not usually portrayed in cinema, perhaps as a sign of respect for the most shocking event in recent history. Perhaps it’s also because we do not know how to deal with terror. Continue Reading...

September 10, 2024

Staying Human in the A.I. Mega-Machine

Recently I went to see my doctor for a follow-up to spine surgery that alleviated much of the severe pain that had been limiting my life in serious ways. The surgery was a success, and with less pain came more mobility, better sleep, and increased vitality. Continue Reading...

September 05, 2024

New Norms and the Death of Culture

There are no writers left in America: no impressive novelist, no essayist who commands prestige and popularity. This is true of Britain, too. Now as never before, the great modern empires of liberalism and democracy seem to have nothing to say for themselves. Continue Reading...

September 04, 2024

The Road to Serfdom at 80

F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (1944) is often portrayed as a mid-20th-century economist’s restatement of a 19th-century case for unreconstructed laissez-faire economics. Anyone who has read the text, however, knows that this is a serious misrepresentation of Hayek’s most famous book. Continue Reading...

August 30, 2024

Toasters and Trade: How Misguided Policies Could Burn the American Dream

This weekend, Americans will celebrate Labor Day and the unofficial close of summer with barbecues, parades, and a few extra lazy days before the onset of fall. This year happens to mark the 130th official Labor Day holiday, signed into law by President Grover Cleveland in 1894. Continue Reading...

August 29, 2024

Randy E. Barnett: A Principled Commitment to the Truth

The term “Greenhouse effect” is primarily used by the environmentalist movement as an explanation for global warming, but in 1992 Judge Laurence Silberman appropriated the term and in a clever play on words linked it to Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court at the New York Times for more than 40 years. Continue Reading...

August 28, 2024

Invisible Logic: Boy, Do I Have a Conspiracy Theory for You

At page 99 of their substance-free investigation into the effects of the doctrine they call “neoliberalism,” George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison start talking about “conspiracy fictions,” which is what they prefer to call conspiracy theories. Continue Reading...

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