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  • Is Islam Imperialist?

    Is Islam Imperialist?2

    English philosopher Antony Flew once commented that Islam was “best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.” This is a rather provocative notion, but it’s not as implausible as it seems. Arab imperialism is a very real phenomenon. As James Sinkinson writes, “Arabs are the most successful colonizers

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  • Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government

    Cicero and Democracy: What an Ancient Thinker Can Teach Us About Government2

    Ancient philosophers didn’t like democracy. Cicero, the great Roman defender of natural rights, is a case-in-point. So as Americans gear up for another presidential election, it’s worth taking a look at his reasons for rejecting popular government. Politics played an outsized role in Cicero’s life, so it’s not surprising that he wrote and spoke a

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  • Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book

    Adam Smith Thought This Was His Most Important Book3

    Adam Smith is best known for writing The Wealth of Nations, but in a way, his work in economics took a back seat to his moral philosophy. In fact, Smith thought that his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was more important than his economic theory. It’s in this book, for example, that Smith

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  • What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame

    What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame5

    In the 1980s, Johnny Cash, the former king of country, was increasingly marginalized and forgotten. After a series of failed albums, Columbia, his label of 25 years, dropped him. But his career was not quite over. Producer Rick Rubin saw Cash perform alongside Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992 and recognized that “the

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  • Do Evangelicals Care More About Trump Than Jesus?

    Do Evangelicals Care More About Trump Than Jesus?10

    Are Christians united more by politics than Jesus? In a recent Washington Post opinion article, author Shadi Hamid argues that a peculiar partnership has emerged between politics and religion: Those who profess to be Evangelicals largely support former President Donald Trump. In the article, Hamid asks, “How can people who prize moral rectitude and personal

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  • The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature

    The Forgotten Father of Modern Fantasy Literature4

    George MacDonald had a colossal impact on some of the most brilliant early-20th-century writers, including C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien. He was a Scottish minister, poet, and fairytale writer, but today, much of his work has been abandoned. It’s time to shake the dust from MacDonald’s magical and redemptive works, many of which

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