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The Return of Strong Religion
R. R. Reno
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There is no appetite for easy or permissive religion. The young want conviction.
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It’s Time to Defund Planned Parenthood
John Mize and Jeffrey Barrows
Planned Parenthood receives massive government funding but fails to provide quality medical services.
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The Pitfalls of Making America “Hot” Again
Virginia Aabram
The conservative coalition can do better than to prop up “hotness” as a cardinal virtue.
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Lessons from Declining Protestant Churches
Carl R. Trueman
Prioritizing church agencies over local ministry is an enduring problem.
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My Family and Other Gnostics
John Byron Kuhner
Gerald Durrell’s sunny memoir
My Family and Other Animals
glosses over the family’s dysfunction.
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Wisconsin Against Religious Charity
Jack Fitzhenry
The state determined that Catholic Charities serves no “religious purpose.”
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The Many Faces of Capitalism
Peter J. Leithart
From Adam Smith to Louis Blanc, there’s a complex history to the word
capitalism
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