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One of the recurring refrains in the books of Kings is that later rulers of Israel “walked in the sins of Jeroboam.” The phrase appears so often...
Modern people often think they understand what a table is. A table is where individuals consume calories. It is a site of preference expression. One...
One of the stranger developments of the modern American political landscape is that both the activist left and the activist right increasingly...
Entering Other Moral Worlds A friend recently sent me an article on the history of fairness. What struck me immediately was not simply the argument...
King Josiah should feel confusing to the modern reader. He discovers the forgotten Torah deep into the decline of the Kingdom of Judah. He tears his...
Perpetual Psychological Pressure There is a form of terror that does not primarily operate through mass casualty attacks. Its power comes from shaping...
Two months ago, I reposted a statement from Donald Trump into a WhatsApp group chat after one of the flare-ups involving Iran. I remember the...
America is beginning to speak the language of great power competition again. Not explicitly, at least not most of the time. Few people openly invoke...
A few weeks ago, I read a story about poisoned rivers in northwest Georgia. For decades, the region’s carpet industry used PFAS, “forever...
Nearly a decade ago, a Christian friend told me something that has stayed with me ever since. After converting to Christianity, he apologized to me...
There is a certain kind of argument that appears in every generation: the claim that, with the right tools and the right design, we can finally take...
The statements do not quite line up. Escalation is threatened, then paused. A ceasefire is dismissed, then extended. Total control is claimed in one...
““And he alone, in all the world, must say Yes or No to that awesome, ultimate question, ‘Shall we drop the bomb on a living target?’”—...
For two decades, Western military doctrine was summarized in a simple phrase: clear, hold, build. You remove militants. You secure the territory. You...
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