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The Bumpy Ride of the 20th-Century French Church
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The Bookkeeping of Memory: Judgment and Justice in True Grit
Charles Portis’s True Grit, first published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1968, is a story of the …
Philip Kolin’s Meekness: How Will the Meek Inherit the Earth?
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Balthasar and Heidegger: Theology and Binding the Strongman
It is not always easy to distinguish between complaint and inquiry, but over the years I have had emails about …
Beyond the Modern Myths of Ancient Athens
In 2017 the Washington Post adopted the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” An informed citizenry, one presumably enlightened by the …
Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy Then and Now: Breaking and Entering the American Style
Bernstein: “How can you keep going at something past the point when you’d believe it?” Woodward: “We just have to …
The Humanities and the Birds of Appetite
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5 Key Things Nearly Everyone Missed in the Pope’s Letter to Teachers
I want to start with a footnote. Footnote 24, at the very end of Drawing New Maps of Hope, cites …
10 Principles for Treating Time as Treasure
A successful cardiac surgeon once told me he realized he had mastered time when he could perform a life-saving operation …