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“National Revolutions are in Harmony with Individual experience and Material Phenomena”: William Leask’s 1848 ‘National Revolutions: A Sermon’
Between 1848 and 1871, Western Europe and North America underwent a series of political upheavals, many of them violent, that pitted broadly liberal nationalist…
Wilder’s Island
A possible allusion to Aristophanes in Thornton Wilder's The Woman of Andros.
Shelby Foote and “Sub-Creation”
What light does Shelby Foote shed on Tolkien's "sub-creation"?
Onward, Christian(?) Soldiers: Political Theology and Christians Taking Up Arms as Christians in the 19th Century United States
Despite a wealth of martial imagery in traditional Anglophone hymnody and in English-language religious discourse broadly, modern Americans flinch at the notion of churchmen…
“Bloodbath”: A Limerick
A limerick about how the White House has managed to make misleading the public not just bad, but boring.
