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Will Trump Need to Compromise with Iran?

War-making is a dynamic enterprise. Military successes and failures change the circumstances of conflict. That’s certainly the case for the war with Iran. The hoped-for domestic uprising against the. The post Will Trump Need to Compromise with Iran? appeared first on First Things

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Culture

The Donatist Comeback

My Lenten reading has included an interesting, if somewhat odd, book about the greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare, a philologist. The post The Donatist Comeback appeared first on First Things

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Politics

‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Redux

At the beginning of the Iraq War, David Frum published an article in National Review entitled “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” attacking those on the right opposed to the war—including the founders of this magazine, Patrick J. Buchanan, Scott McConnell, and Taki Theodoracopulos. Almost a quarter-century later, Frum’s arguments stand out as particularly lazy and dishonest smears. Almost […] The post ‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Redux appeared first on The American Conservative

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