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April 17, 2025

Abraham Lincoln’s God

For the sixteenth president, freedom was something holy.

Tuesday was the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. To mark the occasion, Michael Lucchese reflects on the role of religion in this great president’s worldview, and his progression from an attitude of skeptical rationalism to something else:

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April 17, 2025

  1. The British Lawyers Going to Court for Hamas

    Perhaps giving banned terrorist groups legal rights was a mistake.

  2. Canada’s New Prime Minister Is Failing His Country’s Jews

    Mark Carney denounces Israel for violating Gaza’s “territorial integrity.”

  3. Nobody Knows How to Fight Anti-Semitism. But We Do Know How to Raise Committed Jews

    Communal priorities in hostile times.

  4. Abraham Lincoln’s God

    For the sixteenth president, freedom was something holy.

  5. Deciphering the Tongues of Biblical Mesopotamia

    How Europeans uncovered ancient Akkadian and Sumerian.