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Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthics

the paranoid style in American Christianity - Doctors Without Boredom

Christians are always tempted by fear, but genuine challenges require genuine faith.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthics

the paranoid style in American Christianity - Doctors Without Boredom

Christians are always tempted by fear, but genuine challenges require genuine faith.

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

can white people be saved? - Doctors Without Boredom

I know many of my followers might be skeptical of the concept of “whiteness” and may bristle at the question, “Can white people be saved?” If that’s you — and even if it’s not — I invite you to read […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

can white people be saved? - Doctors Without Boredom

I know many of my followers might be skeptical of the concept of “whiteness” and may bristle at the question, “Can white people be saved?” If that’s you — and even if it’s not — I invite you to read […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsCriminal Justice

we need a twenty-first century Comstock - Doctors Without Boredom

Anthony Comstock was vilified and mocked in his time, but our times call for a new Comstock -- and some real restrictions on pornography.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsCriminal Justice

we need a twenty-first century Comstock - Doctors Without Boredom

Anthony Comstock was vilified and mocked in his time, but our times call for a new Comstock -- and some real restrictions on pornography.

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

"making human life safe for human beings" - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a fine essay by James Poulos on the failure of “mass enlightenment” to occur via technology and the urge of the institutional elites to add more technology to fix the problem: On those premises, the internet arose. By […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

"making human life safe for human beings" - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a fine essay by James Poulos on the failure of “mass enlightenment” to occur via technology and the urge of the institutional elites to add more technology to fix the problem: On those premises, the internet arose. By […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

colonizing Mars won't be nearly as exciting as we think - Doctors Without Boredom

Micah Meadowcroft is in top form with this essay at The New Atlantis about the letdown that colonizing Mars could be: Consider your place in our interplanetary future. Let us speculate. Suppose that SpaceX or some similar enterprise has succeeded, […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

colonizing Mars won't be nearly as exciting as we think - Doctors Without Boredom

Micah Meadowcroft is in top form with this essay at The New Atlantis about the letdown that colonizing Mars could be: Consider your place in our interplanetary future. Let us speculate. Suppose that SpaceX or some similar enterprise has succeeded, […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEducation

where Foucault and the Apostle Paul meet - Doctors Without Boredom

This interview with Alan Jacobs is full of all the things I love to think about! The new book has an “Interlude,” in which you point to “other pilgrims, other paths,” and one of the figures is Dorothy Day, an icon […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEducation

where Foucault and the Apostle Paul meet - Doctors Without Boredom

This interview with Alan Jacobs is full of all the things I love to think about! The new book has an “Interlude,” in which you point to “other pilgrims, other paths,” and one of the figures is Dorothy Day, an icon […]