The Narthex
Thought Blockers
Let us wriggle free of the 'conservative' and 'liberal' duopoly
By James Hanink | October 8th 2018 3:04 PMLet’s start with good blockers. Alpha-blockers and beta-blockers play a strategic role in reducing high blood pressure and even some cardiac problems. They’re health-defenders. Next up? Something seasonal: Fall’s the season for football blockers, especially welcome as goal-defenders. What about bad blockers? They’re a motley crew of offenders. Enter name-droppers…
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Nature is simply a starting point for grace
By James Hanink | October 5th 2018 5:18 PM“Don’t mess with Texas!” Right, probably a mistake. There’s no doubt, though, that it’s folly to cross Mother Nature. And Father Time? Why, he chronicles the history of our lives. Surely, then, Henry Ford’s famous “History is bunk!” is nonsense—on stilts. Isn’t it history that decides our worth and measures…
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Nattering nominalists close the case on truth
By James Hanink | September 28th 2018 3:53 PMWhat is the aim of our clicking and reading? It is not to say, "Whatever!" The aim is thinking. And when we think, we form judgments. We think, for example, that G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, that gin merits tonic, that the Babylon Bee has great satire. When we think we…
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