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  • Team Spirit0

    Cheerleaders’ silver-and-teal pom-poms sparkle in the panoramic waves of movement and color that accompany a typical National Football League game for the Miami Dolphins. Coaches, like restless generals, clipboards in hand, pace the sidelines while dwarfed by a revolving door of massive players. It’s a game of X’s and O’s, strategy, offense and defense, teammates

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  • After Liberalism0

    “The end of liberalism is in sight,” writes Patrick J. Deneen, a Notre Dame political scientist, in his widely acclaimed new book, Why Liberalism Failed.”1And this may lead “either to liberalocratic despotism or the rigid and potentially cruel authoritarian regime.” This dire prediction recalls Martin Heidegger’s Der Spiegel 1966 interview, published after his death in

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  • Religion and the Show Trials0

    For many, the story of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist political witch-hunt is little known or little remembered. After all, the infamous hearings ended over sixty years ago! But recent events show an uncanny resemblance to those times. At the nadir of McCarthy’s purge there was a conflation of false morality, Christianity and anti-Communism.

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  • A Innocent Beginning0

    In 2002 Muhammed Yusuf created a religious complex that had an Islamic school and a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern state of Borno. Not many could have envisaged that the establishment would turn-out to be a shrouded cradle for Nigeria’s future nightmare.The school was particularly popular with poor Muslim families from across

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  • Is Suppression of Religion Justified?0

    Religion is the common denominator in several of the most infamous acts of terror recently committed on American soil. The suspects in the mass shootings in Orlando and San Bernardino were adherents of a radical ideology that advocates the use of violence as a means to propagate the Islamic faith. Islam’s connection to these atrocities

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  • A Matter of Evidence0

    American citizen and clergyman Andrew Brunson was arrested by Turkish officials, who accused him of links with and membership in an armed terrorist organization. Brunson and his family were not in Turkey on holiday. Rather, they have been legal residents of the country for more than 20 years, helping shepherd a small Protestant congregation in

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