Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want should be on the shelf of every political figure and public-sphere thinker in America. (Just, please, read it first, before putting it on the shelf.) Barris and Lisec provide
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Burn It Down (Book Review)
Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want should be on the shelf of every political figure and public-sphere thinker in America. (Just, please, read it first, before putting it on the shelf.) Barris and Lisec provide precisely what the subtitle promises. They provide, too, a sharp-eyed, considered analysis of what those…
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Avalon’s Main Antagonist (Avalon Review III)
Of all the bits of Avalon, the failure of the ‘main’ antagonist is at once the most surprising in retrospect and the clearest. Surprising, because I can remember how dangerous Morgian seemed, how appropriately threatening and powerful; clear, because when I trace the bare facts of her work, precious few redeeming qualities appear in her.…
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Motivation, Incentive, & Mechanism (Islander VI Review)
Will Tanner’s article in Islander VI points in the right direction. Stopping modernity’s downspiral requires a radical societal restructuring. Fundamentally, this restructuring must be a reformation of mechanism, incentive, and motivation. All three must be re-aligned in totality with God’s law and His prescription and thus with His blessing. We cannot be content with shifting…