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Some Kind of Artist A few weeks before the recent election the arts section of our local paper featured a discussion of the fact that so many artists are on the political left, sometimes the fairly radical left. The editor put the question to a number of local artists, and the unsurprising answer that many
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Sunday Night Journal — July 11, 2004 The new issue of Touchstone arrived a week or so ago. Touchstone, which subtitles itself “A Journal of Mere Christianity,” does a marvelous job of serving as a platform for what has been called “ecumenically orthodox” Christianity. I like it better than the somewhat similar First Things, partly
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Sunday Night Journal — March 14, 2004 Although I have pretty strong political convictions and opinions, I have not wanted to spend much time expressing them here. (If you want to classify my politics, I’m a conservative of more traditionalist than libertarian bent, and Russell Kirk’sTen Conservative Principles are more or less my own.) This
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Sunday Night Journal — January 25, 2004 When President Bush announced recently that he wants to revitalize our space exploration program with projects for establishing a permanent base on the moon and sending men to Mars, my immediate reaction was excitement. I find it, in fact, a bit surprising that anyone would react otherwise, but
Light On Dark Water 