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Weekend Beacon 5/11/25

Welcome to our special Mother’s Day edition of the Weekend Beacon, featuring all the subjects we love discussing with our mothers: faith, sex, drugs, and politics! (Okay, not all the…

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Ross Douthat and the New Theism

Twenty years after the new atheism coursed triumphantly across the West, its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar is upon us. No less than Deity-denier Richard Dawkins marked the transmutation last year,…

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Just Say Yes?

“We’re here! We’re high! Get used to it!” This was what Garth Mullins’s girlfriend was yelling at a protest in the late 1990s in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mullins—who was, at…

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