Daily Archive: March 8, 2010

Mystical America

All sorts of interesting this morning from Ross Douthat, regarding America and the mystical experience. He writes: Conservative believers fixate on the culture wars, religious liberals preach social justice, and neither leaves room for...

Compare and Contrast

From TNR’s excellent review of The Killer Trail, a history of  one murderous French expedition into the heart of 19th century Africa (emphasis mine): The Europeans, Taithe notes, never recognized African kingdoms as states,...