Does even a small spike in inflation affect the number of children a couple bring into the world? You’d be surprised. Read More… Inflation is widely disliked. Surveys consistently find that inflation is believed to erode purchasing power and…
Michael Ward set the gold standard for Lewis scholarship in 2008 with the publication of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Ward demonstrated that Lewis’s fairy tales revealed unmined depths. Since 2008, there has…
WORLD — The international Muslim community issued a collective statement this week explaining that it would be unfair to judge their religion based on the bad actions of several million of its members.Despite decades of repeated violent attacks…
Sacrifice is a paradox. A compelling paradox. In his new book, Sacrifice: Religion and the Revitalization of Christian Life, Clemens Cavallin dives headfirst into the historical, theological, and salvific nature of sacrifice throughout the human…
Burning Man, a movement with an annual neo-pagan event that erects a temporary city in the middle of the Black Rock desert in Nevada, is not simply an art festival, as the organizers would like you to think.It is in fact a “container” where a…
It took the United States nearly two centuries for its federal debt to reach one trillion dollars. From George Washington through the Carter administration, with a civil war, two world wars, and a Great Depression in between, the U.S. fiscal…
Two days before 9/11, Band of Brothers aired on HBO to an audience of 10 million viewers. America discovered the definitive statement of that period about “the Greatest Generation.” I want to make the case for viewing this show again, with new…
My intention on an early July morning was not to wake up at four o’clock to check on my students’ AP scores. It’s obsessive behavior, and kind of embarrassing. But I was nervous for good reason. This past school year I decided to try something…
Compassion enjoys an enviable reputation in modern public life. Virtually every political proposal arrives wrapped in its language, accompanied by stirring promises of justice, moving stories of hardship, and assurances that government action…
Reflecting on the American Revolution, a resentful John Adams lamented that few would remember his contributions to the country’s struggle for independence. He predicted that future generations would be taught that “Dr Franklins electrical Rod,…
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