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Christian Smith wants Notre Dame to be pure. But shrines are never pure—and Notre Dame is an American Catholic shrine.
Donald Trump bears an uncanny resemblance to Rex Mottram, the businessman and opportunistic British politician in Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited.’

The Networker

Jeffrey Epstein's elite pals treated the sexual abuse of hundreds of girls as a joke or a PR hiccup. The man may be dead, but the ethos of the Epstein network is ascendant in American public life.
Charles Murray’s ‘Taking Religion Seriously’ is not, ultimately, a serious exploration of Christian belief.
A prayer service outside a Newark DHS detention center was a reminder that, for Christians, every prison and every tyrant is a temporary thing.
For decades, U.S. sanctions have been crippling Venezuela—and the poor, not the politicians, have paid the greatest price.
“Crows, / shiny as split anthracite, tear bits off the sun, suck stars / down to the pulse, spit them out.”