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Do the moral failings of a theologian--or a pastor, a scholar, an artist, or a statesman--invalidate what he or she says? Today authors of all sorts, especially those of the past, face cancellation for their retrograde beliefs and bad behavior. Ethicist Gilbert Meilaender brings to bear the 4th century controversy over Donatism to help us distinguish between a person's life and the person's works.
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This article will be released in full online April 17, 2023. First published in 1952, I. F. Stone's Hidden History of the Korean War was a stunning indictment…
Human Action uniquely stands out as a classic in the literature of economics. Mises's brilliant treatise is a cornerstone for understanding the nature of the free society and the workings of the market economy.
In Metaphor, David Punter reads Chinua Achebe's postcolonial novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) which draws upon Yeats's "The Second Coming" (1921) for its title, arguing that the centre is "responsible for the very social, political and cultural problems now being encountered in Africa, and perhaps globally" (117). While in Yeats the centre is synonymous with "innocence," Achebe's position as the colonised reconceptualises it to be the root of all plights. The shift in perspective caused by colonial experience endows the postcolonial writer with a weapon to rework. It also alters and indeed s...