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Damon Linker | May 3, 2013America should not intervene in Syria. But a pair of presidential screw-ups may force us to.
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Terrence Malick's moving Christian message — and film critics' failure to engage with it
Damon Linker | April 26, 2013The divisive director's last two films were essentially ecstatic cinematic tributes to God. But you wouldn't know it from reading the reviews
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Damon Linker | March 29, 2013It has to do with the introduction of birth control pills
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Damon Linker | March 15, 2013There is simply no reason why it should be assumed that either spouse will automatically and by default be responsible for anything
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Damon Linker | March 8, 2013That godlessness might be both true and terrible is something that the new atheists refuse to entertain
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Damon Linker | March 1, 2013Politics in a free society shouldn't be used to stamp out the views of those who dissent from prevailing opinion
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Damon Linker | February 22, 2013Two-thirds of Americans want to uphold Roe v. Wade. But only 13 percent believe abortion is morally acceptable
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Damon Linker | February 15, 2013The Catholic Church, accustomed to moving at the pace of centuries, seems lost in our global democratic culture dominated by a technologically fueled tabloid sensibility
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Damon Linker | February 8, 2013Prognosticators worry that skyrocketing tuition and technology-driven innovations will soon lead to the collapse of the American university. They're wrong
The regressive, vacuous ideology of neocons
Damon Linker | February 1, 2013"My country — always right, never wrong": It's the least thoughtful and most primitive form of patriotism
The five-headed future of conservative thought
Damon Linker | January 25, 2013Commentary magazine invites the Right's biggest thinkers to a forward-looking symposium. The results may delight liberals
The worrying rise of reckless liberal pundits
Damon Linker | January 18, 2013Sure, many conservatives are engaging in juvenile brinksmanship. But Paul Krugman and Co. are succumbing to shockingly magical thinking
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