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The ballot box as baptismal font: what the fight over a Texas Senate seat reveals about a country where both parties would rather own God than obey Him

The Washington Post celebrates James Talarico and the progressive Christians contesting the Republican claim on God — while conceding, in the same breath, that the effort will fail unless the Democratic Party moderates. That concession gives the whole game away: on both sides of the aisle, theology has been demoted to a supplier of slogans, and a God who takes instructions from a party platform is not God.

The ballot box as baptismal font: what the fight over a Texas Senate seat reveals about a country where both parties would rather own God than obey Him
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The Harvest of Souls by the Millisecond: What Neuroscience Actually Reveals About the Attention Economy's Siege of the American Family
Science and Bioethics

The Harvest of Souls by the Millisecond: What Neuroscience Actually Reveals About the Attention Economy's Siege of the American Family

The developing brain of the American child has become the raw material of an extractive industry that mines attention as its predecessors mined coal. A neuroscientific and anthropological examination of dopaminergic capture, and why the domestic church — not the federal guideline — remains the only proportionate response.

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Who authorizes a death: the Augé case, the ninety-six-year-old father who litigated for two years, and the question no one put to the court (Part 1)
Science and Bioethics

Who authorizes a death: the Augé case, the ninety-six-year-old father who litigated for two years, and the question no one put to the court (Part 1)

A man of fifty-five, carrying the aftermath of a succession of strokes and heart attacks, obtained authorization to die. His ninety-six-year-old father appealed and litigated for two years; Spain's Supreme Court granted him standing in June; on August 26 he withdrew, exhausted. The file closes without anyone having examined the premise holding the whole thing up: that there are dignified deaths because there are lives that have ceased to be so.

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