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What Xi Jinping Wants

You can’t understand China today without understanding its president, Xi Jinping. Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has doubled down on communist ideology and significantly consolidated his own power while transforming China into an industrial juggernaut unrivaled in the world. And Xi’s ambitions for China go far beyond that. So what does Xi want for China in the coming years? And how should the United States respond? Kevin Rudd has a unique perspective on these questions. He first met Xi in ...

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A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square

When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal of religion and public life founded by a Lutheran pastor who soon. The post A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square appeared first on First Things

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World Cup Blues, of a Sort

CRACOW. I usually find the quadrennial FIFA World Cup aggravating for the five reasons enumerated below, plus one other: My students here in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the. The post World Cup Blues, of a Sort appeared first on First Things

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The Pope and the Antichrist

I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons, mostly because nobody else is talking about it—which, for most of Christian. The post The Pope and the Antichrist appeared first on First Things

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