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On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 3: How Mankind Discovered “Going to Work”)
9. If our point of departure in understanding modernity is “that moment in which some humans decided they were modern,” then the epochal fracture…

Names Writ in Water
The grave of John Keats in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome famously reads, “Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water.” While doing…

Church Music Is Just the Worst (Circa 1840)
I would like to start a series of short blogposts, “Church Music Is Just the Worst (Circa)” focusing on primary sources and first-hand accounts…

Elevator Music from Hell
Last time, we saw Edmund Burke’s claim that it was unjust to punish a man for a name to which he happens to be…

The Last Liberal Conservative
Liberal Conservatives in the Nineteenth Century, unlike latter-day libertarians who claim their mantle, understood that institutional might and power played a role in liberal…