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“Attending Only to the Shell and Husk of History”
At long last, I’m making good on my promise to finish off the Burke series. In the first two posts, we looked at the…

The Duty of Praying for Our Rulers
In the Spring of 1843, William A. Scott, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans, delivered a sermon that caused such a…

How to Pray
For Melanchthon Monday this week, we’re taking a hiatus from the series “Then in Distress We Upraise,” but don’t worry: we’ll get back to…

On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 5: A Crisis of Trust)
17. To claim that modernity entails the simultaneous global re-negotiation of all human custom does not, crucially, imply that modernity is the death of…

“The Worst Sort of Tyrant: The Philosophic Doctrinaire”
The other day, I mentioned Charles Oman’s Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Republic and his description Tiberius Gracchus. Here is the brilliant conclusion…