The manufactured identity of Kamala Harris is typical of how our elites hollow out all our most valuable institutions.
Tag: Christianity
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Elon Musk Fights the Leviathan With Free Speech and Spaceships
Musk could have taken the easy road and gone along with the progressive agenda. Instead, he’s using his wealth and power to push back against the government.
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Whose is the Wrong Rally?
By telling people shouting “Jesus Is Lord” that they didn’t belong at her rally, Kamala Harris demonstrated the deep divide over religion between the parties.
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On Not Forgiving or Forgetting 9/11
You do not do something like this to my people and expect me ever to get over it.
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Becoming by Beholding
An important new book demonstrates the ways imagination is essential to Christianity.
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Christianity over Buddhism, Objectively
The life-affirming nature of Christianity seeks to overcome death while Buddhism, properly understood, embraces it.
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‘Zulu’ at 60
The film savaged by today’s woke critics as a key text for “white nationalists” is, in fact, an outstanding recreation of a heroic and adventurous past with enduring popular appeal.
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The Bad Theology of Our Israel Über Alles Foreign Policy
Christian dispensationalism explains the fervor with which some in the Republican Party support the interests of the nation of Israel as if they were always our own.
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Suicide Redux: A Psychiatrist Responds
More psychiatrists will not solve the existential crisis of our society. A solution must lie elsewhere.
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The Case for Ben Carson and the Return of American Goodness
As the vice-presidential nominee, Dr. Ben Carson would benefit Donald Trump enormously—both personally and politically.
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Aaron Wolf, Memory Eternal
Remembering the significant contributions of former Chronicles executive editor Aaron Wolf on the fifth anniversary of his passing.
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A Constitution Unburdened by Consent
Because we have unburdened our political rhetoric from authentic Christianity and our Constitution from the necessity of reflecting our consent, we are burdened instead by empty language and forms now used to enslave us.
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Trump’s Not a ‘True Conservative’—He’s a Winner
Amoral populism is the future, whether we like it or not.
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MLK Redivivus
Martin Luther King, Jr. did not bring the races closer together; and the legacy he left behind has been one of erasing more and more of our national heritage whenever it does not fit a progressively more radical leftist agenda.
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Will Africa Save America?
Conservatives are right to take heart from Christianity’s growth in Africa. Yet if the civilization that Christianity created in Europe and America cannot survive here, the prospects for Christian civilization anywhere are bleak.
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Answering Pop Music’s Malaise this Christmas
A culture is characterized by its public rites. Western culture today shows itself most clearly in popular song and what we hear is in need of an antidote.
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Longing for the Sacred
Though his portrayal of the Catholic saint is superficial at best, Padre Pio director Abel Ferrara's at least accomplish something, accidentally, by leading the film's star onto a redemptive path.
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Curing Cultural Amnesia
Wokeism has spread widely, but wokeism’s triumph is not irreversible. Indeed, the necessary first step of subverting wokeism may well be the sufficient final step as well.
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Christianity Today Editor Russell Moore: ‘We Have No King But Caesar!’
Russell Moore’s recent editorial about the indictment of Donald Trump is a passive-aggressive attack on the former president and his supporters.
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Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Creating a sense of moral obligation to outsiders is one of Christianity’s singular achievements. But the full genius of historical Christianity was shown by its ability to do this without falling into a suicidal universalism.
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Greatness of Heart in Manzoni’s “The Betrothed”
Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed is an exemplar of artistic accomplishment, full of true heroism and the struggle between good and evil in singular souls, as well as a shrewd and profoundly political vision.
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The West on the Precipice: A Warning and a Hope
Traditional Christians should unite against the satanic vision of liberal-democratic nirvana, which continually threatens the West.