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  • Integral History0

    Not the catchiest of titles, but I use it for a reason. The historian Will Durant spent nearly 50 years writing The Story of Civilization. It put him in the company of such ambitious personal historians as Edward Gibbon and Winston Churchill. Like Churchill, Durant was able to stamp history with a well-reasoned, narrative style.

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  • A Mosque Too Close?0

    The controversy over the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City in some ways demonstrates a failure of leadership. But before we identify those failures, let us review the situation more broadly. Muslims are currently worshipping at a building that formerly housed a coat manufacturer. The facility is a couple of long blocks away

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  • Lawful, But Not Helpful0

    As of this writing anyway—though the so-called &”Ground Zero&” mosque controversy is still  unresolved—at least the Gainesville, Florida, pastor who threatened to burn the Koran as a public protest against the mosque has backed off.   No Koran burnings by Christian clergy, at least for now. However much as many Americans could understand his frustration,

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  • The Christian Persecutory Impulse0

    There are many different forms of relgious intolernace, and, over the centuries, many faiths have persecuted. In the Western context, however, it is the persecution of Christians, by Christians, especially in the two centuries after the Reformation, that is most important, because it still shapes relationships between peoples of different faiths and confessions today. Yet

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  • Questions of Liberty0

    Erwin Chemerinsky (J.D. Harvard Law School, '78) is Founding Dean of the U.C. Irvine School of Law, an author of numerous legal treatises and more than 100 law review articles, a renowned constitution scholar, and a veteran U.S. court of appeals and U.S. Supreme Court litigator. Dean Chemerinsky, thank you for graciously agreeing to be

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  • The Black-Robed Regiment0

    Glenn Beck made quite an impact with his Washington rally this year. It led many to comment that he seemed to be positioning himself as a leader of the conservative Christian political spectrum. It has been noted that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and David Barton all champion the "Black-Robed Regiment." David Barton, of

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