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  • The Medieval Not Quite Reformed0

    Part Two in a Series. Click here for Part One, "The Christian Persecutory Impulse." In the first article we saw that Christian persecution neither originated with Emperor Constantine I in the early fourth century nor was inflicted on the church as part of efforts to extend imperial power. While persecution eventually was indeed imposed by

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  • The Meaning of America0

    A famous historian once said that if Washington had been resurrected in Lincoln's time, he would not have found it very different from his own day. Clothing styles might have changed a little; some of the laws and customs might be new, but in the main, there would be no real divergence of culture and

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  • The Masque0

    Last time I was in Venice the water stains in St. Mark’s Square were still visible, though months after the last flooding tide. Some of the steps onto the canal looked suspiciously slimy, but by and large it was easy to forget the predicted Atlantean future. The most unavoidable reminder was one grand and ancient

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  • The Man on the White Horse!0

    Time for the cavalry? Since 9/11 it seems we've been living out a darker model of action. Sort of like the ill-famed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War. If you've read the famous poem of that event you'll appreciate the brave stupidity of Lord Raglan's order for the brigade to charge several

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  • The Man in the Tiger Chair0

    Nury Turkel was born in China, a member of an oppressed ethnic and religious minority. Today he is a Uyghur American attorney and chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent government agency that monitors religious freedom violations around the world. In this excerpt from his recently published book, No Escape: The

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  • The Lure of School Vouchers0

    There's nothing like the excitement surrounding the first day of school-it's an American tradition. Across the nation, millions of students enter a new season of classes, books, and exams after a long summer's rest. But late last August this tradition hit a speed bump for 4,000 private parochial school students in Cleveland, Ohio, when U.S.

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