“There is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016.” So concludes a group of conservative thinkers who have issued a manifesto about how a rebooted conservatism needs to be. According to Against the Dead Consensus, the Reagan-era conservative consensus–an alliance of
The impending demise of us Baby Boomers will soon mean a boom in deaths. And what we in my generation have done to American culture, we are doing to funerals. From Karen Heller, The funeral as we know it is becoming a relic — just
A piece of fruit is green at first, but after awhile it ripens, reaching its peak of deliciousness. But if it continues to ripen past that point, the fruit starts to decay, until it becomes utterly rotten and decomposes. Not just fruit but other things
All the Democrats have to do to defeat Donald Trump is to hold onto the states won by Hillary Clinton and flip the historically-Democratic rust belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that went for Trump. That means winning over white blue collar voters, which
In the division of labor, different people do different kinds of work for each other, with each specialized task contributing to the common good. The division of labor, with the means of exchange between each division, is a basic concept of economics. For Plato, the
There is anti-semitism. There is Islamophobia. A leader of Coptic Christianity, responding to the Sri Lanka church bombings, says that the world must also recognize “anti-Christianism.” From Christian Today (UK): The head of the UK Coptic Orthodox Church has called on faith communities to make
First the Bible was read from long, continuous hand-written scrolls, one for each book. Then pages were invented, and the new book-form of the codex made it possible for the still hand-copied and illuminated texts to be bound together in large volumes while making it
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is iconic for lots of reasons. Modernism began, according to Tom Oden, when the French revolutionaries in 1789 stripped the cathedral of its religious art and turned it into the “Temple of Reason” by installing in the bishop’s chair a
Lucas Cranach the Younger, “The Resurrection of Christ,” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=461782
Michelangelo’s depiction of Mary holding the body of her dead Son, “The Pietà,” is one of the world’s greatest works of art. I just read an essay by a woman who told how it was instrumental in her conversion to Christianity. So I thought it
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