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Joseph Bottum
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Joseph Bottum, Ph.D., is director of the Classics Institute at Dakota State University. His most recent book is “The Decline of the Novel.”
The Masks of Piety
Commentary I drove across the dusty prairie the other day for a funeral in a midwestern town. Three ...
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October 8, 2021
Measuring Resistance and Outlasting Progressivism
Commentary The swarm of busybodies and prissy reformers has been with us a long time. And in the ...
Viewpoints
October 7, 2021
Our High-Tech Overlords
Commentary Last week, Twitter blocked an account that threatened to tear our social fabric asunder. And who wouldn’t? ...
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November 17, 2020
A Pro-Life Vote for Donald Trump
Commentary I’m the mythical one-issue voter. I would vote for a communist dogcatcher if he were more pro-life ...
Viewpoints
October 28, 2020
Our Anxious Age Seeks Religion in Its Politics
Commentary The reason politics is so envenomed right now—so anxious, so cruel, so all-consuming—is that it’s not really ...
Viewpoints
October 26, 2020
Our Thin Institutions and the Possibility of Civil War
Commentary More than 8,000 members of the Kappa Delta organization have signed a statement denouncing their sorority sister, ...
Viewpoints
October 16, 2020
Teaching Our Students to ‘Cancel’
Commentary You’ll hear that "cancel culture" isn’t real. You’ll hear that the phrase is just a way for ...
Viewpoints
October 9, 2020
The Age of the Ad Hominem
Commentary Judge Amy Coney Barrett is wrong in her legal opinions because she prays with a charismatic Catholic ...
Viewpoints
October 2, 2020
A Münster of Our Own Making: Religiosity in Portland
Commentary A violent gang of radical Anabaptists—now that’s a phrase one doesn’t get to use often, but there ...
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September 25, 2020
With Hypocrisy and Self-Dealing, Our Elites Have Squandered Our Trust
Commentary On Aug. 24, Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as president of Liberty University, the Baptist school founded by ...
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August 25, 2020
Outside the Big Cities, Ordinary America Goes On With Life
Commentary This morning, I woke to a dove moaning on my windowsill, a woodpecker pounding on a nearby ...
Viewpoints
August 18, 2020
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