Day: April 6, 2026
From Desecration to Consecration
In this compact, highly readable book treating issues about which he has also written elsewhere, Carl Trueman examines how it is that, at least on his telling, our world has become one in which limits are no longer meaningful moral boundaries but, rather, obstacles to be overcome. What we have lost, he says, is the sense that every human being is made in the image of God. But it is not as if this belief has just slipped away gradually, no longer making sense in a disenchanted world. Trueman’s claim is stronger. Our culture now takes delight in surpassing and setting aside old limits that were thought to characterize our humanity. The problem is not disenchantment but desecration—the transgressing of older moral limits.
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Some Soviets Were Less Equal Than Others
It is the easiest of questions, it is the most difficult of questions: “Why are the Jews leaving the Soviet Union?” asks Emil Bezverkhny. He writes throughout the latter half of the 20th century, each chapter in his posthumously published The Penny is Gone a capsule preserving the maddening, almost otherworldly qualities of being a Jew, a scientist, just a man, in that time and place. It’s easy to see why Jews are leaving the Soviet Union. They are second-class citizens in the nation that promised such a concept was anathema to its very existence. They are kept out of jobs they deserve, left to destitution and dishonor, neither allowed to practice the Mosaic law nor the new secular religion of science and development of the rational faculties.
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A Novel Way to Approach Death
Everyone loves Julian Barnes. I don’t know of any other novelist who has been praised by both David Bowie and Angela Merkel. He has also been praised by Philip Larkin, Graham Greene, and John Updike, even if Updike referred to him as “an English television critic,” which Barnes was at the time. (Updike was reviewing […]
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The Fall and Rise of Bowie
It’s easy to start a fight between David Bowie fans: Simply ask them to name his best album. Thanks to Bowie’s rare combination of talent and industriousness, a case could easily be made for at least half a dozen of his 26 studio records, each boasting a unique sound. How can anyone compare The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to Scary Monsters?
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The Destructive Hubris of Anti-Trump Republicans
In a recent and viral announcement, Joe Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. In the letter, he…
The Mirage of Airpower Supremacy
Since the earliest days of aviation the seductive siren call of airpower supremacy has fascinated military aviators — particularly in…
The War for the Soul of the City
In an age when glass-and-steel monoliths rise like tombstones over the graves of once-human cities, the classical idiom has come…
Hollywood’s Easter Meltdown
It was a glorious Easter Sunday to wake up to in America, for three reasons. Christ is risen, Navy Seals…
The Illusion of Victory: Trump, Iran, and the Limits of Military Power
As we enter week six of the Iran war, we know a little more than when President Trump took us…
National Security and Senior Health Care Must Coexist
When the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s tariffs last month, it didn’t end the administration’s trade ambitions — it redirected them. With IEEPA authority off the table, the White House is turning to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, a national security provision already used to impose tariffs on steel, aluminum, and automobiles, and now […]
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- From Desecration to Consecration April 6, 2026
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- The Fall and Rise of Bowie April 6, 2026
- The Destructive Hubris of Anti-Trump Republicans April 6, 2026
- The Mirage of Airpower Supremacy April 6, 2026
- The War for the Soul of the City April 6, 2026