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On Noticing: It’s not a Covenant
Hatred, a membership law, and noticing are not one object.
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Running commentary and occasional pieces in the public square.
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Two Questions About ICE
A nation is not a waiting room
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The Empty Ballot
The conjunction does not choose
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The Politeness Criterion
Prudence is not baptism
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Is Christian Nationalism Woke Right?
They grant that a Christian people may care about law, family, and a magistrate. They keep calling the name something along the lines of a grievance ontology.
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A Sword that Knows the House
Toby Sumpter and CrossPolitic grant that preferring married households with a parent at home, inside federal childcare money that will be spent anyway, is better than farming fraud or fatherless incentives. They keep calling that preference the same genus of ruin: socialism, welfare, the destruction of the family it pretends
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Money Already Chooses
What should the magistrate do with a spend he is already going to make?
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The Laugh and the Object
Russell Moore's title proves too much Russell Moore says laughter at immigrant suffering is deforming our souls. Even those who want closed borders, he writes, should not find migrants’ pain entertaining. What we learn to laugh at disciples us.[1] Grant the last sentence. A conscience can be
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The Act and the Agent (cont.)
Death is the mode the image requires. Part 2 of 2. Part 1 argued that S still requires P, and that T does not discharge the deed.[1] This part asks what P must be when S is the killing of three image-bearers by the hands that fed them.
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The Act and the Agent
Treatment is not the judgment the deed is owed. Part 1 of 2 It’s commonly believed that when an act is horrific and a serious diagnosis exists, justice must choose between two horns: punish the actor or treat the illness and refuse punishment. Jay Atkins, writing on the Clancy
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The King's Coin and the Household
Preferring the household is not becoming its head. Toby Sumpter is right about the father and right about a certain kind of check. He is wrong that a preference for the intact house, inside money that will be spent anyway, is already that check.[1] The father is the ordinary
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Later Is Not Never
James White named the empty square. The thin civil sentences he already granted still have to speak in it.