Articles by Daniel Walden
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Calm Down, The Classics Aren’t Going Anywhere
Conservatives are furious that Princeton has dropped a Latin and Greek requirement. But far from a reduction in standards, it’s a way of improving and expanding classics education.
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The Longest Night
Our favorite Christianity correspondent, Dan Walden, on the meaning of Christmas.
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Merit, Access, and Swordsmanship
Dan Walden examines what makes life worth living, according to sleeper masterpiece “The Last Samurai”.
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Was Jesus A Socialist?
Well, he wasn’t a libertarian. Dan Walden talks Lawrence Reed’s new book, and the many modernities of Jesus.
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On Casting Out Fear
Dan Walden on the role of faith in liberation, Matt Walsh’s Church of Cowards, and what you can read instead.
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Capitalism As Religion
On Eugene McCarraher’s “The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity,” a fascinating study of the ways in which capitalism, despite its purported scientific rationality, is really a perverse kind of religion.
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The Cults of Capital
What happens when an apocalyptic pandemic meets the apocalyptic death-cult of neoliberalism?
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The Politics of Emergencies
What exactly is an “emergency” and how do we imagine it?
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The West According to Ben Shapiro
The falsified history of a man who proudly refuses to do his homework…
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Dismantling the “West”
The whole concept of “Western” civilization is faulty and should be dumped…
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