Reihan on health-care reform; Bruce Bartlett on tax reform.

Alan Jacobs on Philip Pullman, pro-death apologist.

Seed Magazine on Christians and the multiverse.

Jeremy Beer on Newt's conversion.

Philip Blond on the "Red Tory" moment.

Adam Kirsch on literature at the end of history.

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