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Imagining Malcolm X in 2020

October 19, 2020 Thomas J. Nash 25

As one who grew up in the Motor City, I have long been interested in and drawn to African-American culture, including studying the subject at the University of Michigan. As a young child, I remember […]

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In the Place of the Tiger

October 17, 2020 Dale Ahlquist 7

I knew Thomas Howard a lot longer than he knew me. As an Evangelical Protestant, I had been reading his articles for many years in Christianity Today, a magazine that was standard reading fare in […]

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Thomas Howard, 1935-2020

October 16, 2020 Mark Brumley 4

Thomas Howard converted to Catholicism several years after I became a Catholic but even so he was extremely influential in helping me make sense of my conversion and in speaking to Evangelical friends about it. […]

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Cracks of faith in the secular self

October 14, 2020 Joshua Hren 1

Harper’s editor Christopher Beha’s new novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, pushes against not a few cracks in the ceiling of our age—our love-hatred of celebrities, the fabrications of our failed financial industry, our overreliance […]

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The hard road of national renewal

October 14, 2020 George Weigel 19

Earlier this fall, I was happy to be one of the initial signatories of “Liberty and Justice for All,” a call for national renewal drafted by scholars concerned about the dangerous deterioration of American public […]