Providential Bush
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History and religion are back in business. Those who predicted the end of either or both, from Hegel and Marx to Freud and Frank Fukuyama, have had a good run. But events almost every day make it clear that the 21st-century is not going to lack big themes: themes, moreover, that are as old as Western civilization.
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