Latest articles by Damon Linker
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How Angela Merkel imperiled Europe's futureopinion The German chancellor has opened Europe to a flood of alienated, sex-starved refugees. What could possibly go wrong!
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Race, justice, and America's founding mistakeopinion It is almost impossibly hard to right a profound injustice once it's been embedded in our nation's founding documents, laws, institutions, habits, customs, and history
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How the West lost faith in globalismopinion Growing numbers of voters are asking themselves a question: Are we better off now than we were before the era of globalism began? And they are answering with an emphatic no.
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My existentialist Utah vacationopinion I felt like I'd come home to a place I'd never been or even knew existed
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Is Pope Francis revolutionizing the Catholic Church — or just ad libbing?opinion The perils of being a chatty, slippery pope
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In defense of BYU's honor codeopinion BYU's stringent honor code is being wrongly applied to allegations of sexual assault. That doesn't mean BYU should get rid of the code altogether.
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Will Pope Francis dump the just war doctrine?opinion Why war and peace is shaping up to be the Catholic Church's next battleground
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The retrograde intransigence of conservative Catholicsopinion Many conservative Catholics have responded with horror to Pope Francis' stealth reforms, wishing instead that the doctrines of their faith be done, settled, and fixed for all time
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How America's sexual extremists took over the public squareopinion Whether on campus or in public restrooms, Americans need to get a grip
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Terrence Malick's profoundly Christian visionThe Explainer The director's breathtaking new film, Knight of Cups, offers a movingly Christian outlook on life
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Why doubt is so difficultopinion Can religious skepticism really solve our troubled world?
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The Marxist roots of Islamic extremismopinion Everything is permitted, because history says so. That is Marx's lesson.
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Why opposition to assisted suicide is inextricably tied to religionopinion You can't argue against assisted suicide without invoking God
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How to save liberal arts educationfeature We can start by making it useful
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What I've learned from my years on the couchfeature Give me the Freudian tradition any day
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David Bowie: Portrait of the artist as a rock godfeature We've never seen anything quite like David Bowie — and we may never see anything quite like him again
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A better way to tackle America's gun problemopinion Gun control advocates have too many scattershot policies. They need a simple approach — like this one.
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How America became obsessed with Star Wars and other childish thingsopinion I am an adult. Adults have different taste in art and entertainment than children.
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Why can't The New York Times' religion columnist define religion?opinion It's easy if you try
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America's foreign policy God complexopinion The U.S. is more powerful than any other single nation on the planet, but it is not unlimited in what it can accomplish or control. Not even close.
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The demoralizing truth about ISISopinion The West cannot defeat ISIS. The best we can reasonably hope for is to protect ourselves, however imperfectly.
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Yale, Mizzou, and the death of liberal tolerationopinion Can a liberal democracy thrive if its citizens embrace the blatantly illiberal proposition that freedom of thought and tolerance of dissent are incompatible with human flourishing?
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The chaotic life and career of the great Elvis Costelloopinion Elvis Costello's new book is the most literate, thoughtful, generous, civilized rock autobiography ever written. It's also an undisciplined mess — just like its author.
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Where are all the conservative university professors?The Explainer The answer lies in the origins of the humanities and social sciences
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