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Much Ado About a Little Covering 0
- May/June 2016
- May 1, 2016
The niqab has entered the realm of law and politics in Canada. At issue is the question of what Islam requires in the way of female garb. The main terms to be understood here are the hijab and niqab. The hijab is a garment that covers the hair, at a minimum—perhaps also the neck and
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A Kept People 0
- May/June 2016
- May 1, 2016
Late last year in Paris and San Bernardino, and then this year in Brussels, the West was violently introduced to the type of terrorism that has plagued the Middle East in recent years. The attacks, carried out by people who had entered France and the United States legally, were a vivid reminder to Americans of
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A Man and His Legacy 0
- May/June 2016
- May 1, 2016
On February 13, 2016, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead while on a hunting trip in Texas. He had apparently died from natural causes during his sleep. He was a month shy of his eightieth birthday. The Scalia family declined an autopsy, and his remains were immediately returned to Washington, D.C., for
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Slouching Toward Democratic Totalitarianism 0
- May/June 2016
- May 1, 2016
When we were brought face to face with tyranny—with a kind of tyranny [Communism, Fascism and Nazism] that surpassed the boldest imagination of the most powerful thinkers of the past,” wrote Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century’s leading political philosophers, “our political science failed to recognize it.”1 Actually many leading intellectuals of the twentieth
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Justice and the Law 0
- March/April 2016
- March 1, 2016
He was pugnacious. He was opinionated. He was humorous, but dangerous when provoked. And he had become an institution in himself. I’m talking, of course, of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month at 79— at the time the longest serving member of the current court, being appointed justice in 1986.
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No Going Back 0
- March/April 2016
- March 1, 2016
On July 6, 1415, in Konstanz, Germany, the cathedral was filled to capacity. The air was heavy as Jacob Balardi Arrigoni, bishop of Lodi, preached from the text “that the body of sin be destroyed” (Rom. 6:6). Cardinals, replete with miters, sat in a semicircle around a man in chains, his body emaciated from hunger
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