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- Two Ledgers: Decoding the Gurus and the Price of Talk
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- Curtis Yarvin: A Life Against Democracy
- Mark Helprin: A Life Against the Current
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- John T. Jost: The Psychologist of Acquiescence
- Strange Bedfellows in the Academy: Alliance Theory and the Straussian Schism
- Tournier on Desmond Ford
- The Fence and the Blessing: How Jews Have Thought About Gentiles
- Tournier on Luke Ford
- Tournier on The Nostradamus Kid
- An Alliance Theory of Antisemitism
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- The Self-Hating Jew
- The Alliance Theory in the Academy
- The Borrowed Robe: How Antisemitism Dresses in Each Age’s Virtue
- A Place For You
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Category Archives: Christianity
Tournier on Desmond Ford
Paul Tournier built his psychology on a single observation. A person needs a place before he can become a person. In A Place for You he recalls a student who came to him and said he could not begin his … Continue reading
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Tournier on Luke Ford
Paul Tournier wrote A Place for You from inside its subject. His father died when he was two months old, his mother when he was six, and the Swiss physician spent fifty years building a psychology whose first axiom is … Continue reading
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A Place For You
The Christian psychiatrist Paul Tournier (1898-1986) was a top five author in my home. My stepmom in particular found his work a blessing. As a child, I never made it through any of his books, but the title of one … Continue reading
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Rod Dreher: A Life in Exile
On the morning of May 26, 2026, Rod Dreher (b. 1967) boarded a flight out of Budapest and crossed the Atlantic toward the American South. He had lived in Hungary for four years. He arrived in 2022 as a fifty-five-year-old … Continue reading
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The Cross at Sinjar: Tom Holland’s Dominion
In 2016 Tom Holland (b. 1968) stood in the wreckage of Sinjar, a Yazidi town in northern Iraq that the Islamic State had held for over a year. He was there with a Channel 4 crew, filming a documentary on … Continue reading
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Rick Warren: A Biography
On the morning of April 6, 1980, a 26-year-old preacher stood in front of 205 people in a rented theater at Laguna Hills High School in Orange County, California. Most of them reported limited prior involvement in organized religion. The … Continue reading
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WP: As Christians are attacked in Israel, government shows little concern
However hard Christians have it in Israel, they are usually safer there than any other place in the Middle East*. Here’s a universal principle that applies to this story: The more you love your religion and your people, the more … Continue reading
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Nearer to What?
Sarah Flower Adams (b. 1805, d. 1848) wanted the stage. Her lungs ruled against her. She turned to verse, and in 1841 she handed her minister thirteen hymns for a collection he was assembling, Hymns and Anthems. One of the … Continue reading
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When Other Helpers Fail
He sits on the rocks below Berry Head on a September evening in 1847 and watches the light leave the water. Behind him stands the house his wife’s money bought, the long library that will take seventeen days to auction … Continue reading
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316: A Hero System Reading of Tim Tebow
The public relations man finds him in the tunnel. Denver has just beaten Pittsburgh in overtime, January 8, 2012, the fastest sudden-death finish the league has on record, an eighty-yard throw to Demaryius Thomas (1987–2021) on the first snap. Tim … Continue reading
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