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Winter 2008

Election 2008 Reconsidered: A Political Road Not Taken

February 6, 2009

An article from a conservative perspective in our Winter 2008 issue this morning, from Ryan T. Anderson. We shall pair it on Monday with one of our articles from an evangelical Democrat in the same issue. There are, of course, many things that conservatives generally and the Republican Party specifically must do to recover after [...]

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The Tantrum

January 31, 2009

Struck with grief you were, though only four, The day your mother cut her mermaid hair And stood, a stranger, smiling at the door. They frowned, tsk-tsked your willful, cruel despair, When you slunk beneath the long piano strings And sobbed until your lungs hiccupped for air, Unbribable with curses, cake, playthings. You mourned a [...]

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The New Evangelical Scandal

January 15, 2009

Our second article from the Winter 2008 issue comes from Matthew Lee Anderson of Mere Orthodoxy, and concerns the political, cultural, and theological evolution of young evangelicals. In the 2008 Presidential campaign, the dominant story once again focused on how the evangelical voting bloc would align itself. In late 2007, amidst stories that the influence [...]

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Faith, Fear & Cormac McCarthy

January 7, 2009

Good morning, friends. Our first posted article from the Winter 2008 issue comes from Christopher Badeaux. Enjoy! When I was a kid, I went creekwalking across what is now the President George [H.W.] Bush Expressway, and was then a mix of woods, streams, sewer runoffs, and railroad lines. Because I was a teenage boy, I [...]

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