From Empire to Shire: Rod Dreher’s Nostalgia for Middle-Earth
The author of “The Benedict Option” offers a social vision that omits centuries of Christian intellectual and theological history.
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10 Years Later: An American Muslim Looks Back at Iraq
Ten years on, as the experts who pushed for a disastrous war remain experts, it remains unclear why it ever happened. Was it just racism? Who, after all, does not plan for the day after a war? I plan out what I am going to do when I drive up to New York to see friends and family. Maybe the rest of the world decided to move on while we floundered about, amazed that just because we dreamed something, it could not come to pass.
Read MoreThe Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe
What to expect in Sarajevo.
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Goy to the World: What Does Hanukkah Have to Teach Us About Living in Empire?
A goyish writer wrestles with the anti-imperial themes of Hanukkah and the discomfiting questions it raises for citizens of the American empire. Might an empire be a force for good? Is “force for good” an oxymoron? And finally: how does a Roman manage, in practical terms, to say no to Rome?
Read MoreGood Friday vs. Easter in the Mayan Riviera
What (and where) holidays mean; when the bloody demise of Jesus resonates more than the triumph over death.
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Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters
The Star Trek franchise was famous for its utopian social vision, going boldly where no popular entertainment had gone before. But the new movie takes us back in time, to an age when political divisions were in stark black and white.
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