Introduction: The feckless American retreat from Afghanistan needs to be marked down as one of the more remarkable combinations of high hubris and low incompetence ever accomplished. The ...
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Afghan Travesty
The Scouring of the American Shire
"Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up ...
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Galadriel and the Chimp
Introduction: Like many obviously correct religious phrases, the soothing and very centered one about being gospel-centered, or Christ-centered, or Bible-centered is obviously correct. But ...
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The Changing of the Guard
Introduction: Our impending cultural collision can be seen in what the Navy calls a “steady bearing rate.” If you see a ship off your starboard bow at 30 degrees, and then half an hour later, it is bigger, but still at that thirty degrees, that is called a steady bearing rate. If it keeps up, …
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The Coming Preference Cascade
Introduction: The wave is still gathering, and rising ominously, but it is not yet a breaker. It has not yet crashed onto the beach. But if you are willing to look, you can see it rising. And you can ...
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Budgeting for Stupidity
Introduction: As it is quite obvious to the intelligent observer that our ruling elites are busily engaged in wrecking the country, the theories about why this is the case break into two schools of ...
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Beware of Peru Rising!
Introduction: Suppose we were defending a city, and you and I and two other guys were sentries on the wall. You, of course, are a most reasonable fellow, as am I, so that's all good. But unbeknownst ...
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Assuming the Center
Introduction: There is a phrase that I have used and referred to for quite a number of years now, and I believe that this would be a good time to return to an explanation of it again. That phrase is ...
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Mere Christendom
Introduction: I have been arguing off and on for a few years now on behalf of a cause I call mere Christendom, meaning that Christians need to recover an understanding of the need for a distinctively ...
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Kevin DeYoung and the Taxonomy of Conflict
Introduction: As we contemplate the melee that is the Reformed evangelical world today, it is very easy for the folks in the stands to get a little bewildered. As the saying goes, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard, and the different numbers on the jerseys really helps. And if ever there were a …
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