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The Crux Project Archives
In an earlier incarnation, Salvo magazine was an online journal called The Crux Project. Following is an archive of the material featured on that website.
Academia
For 25 years or more, the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern theory.
Now its empire seems to be breaking up.
by Michael Cook
Are porn studies the latest academic fad?
by Joe Jablonski
for Thomas Klocek, the former DePaul University professor fired over an altercation
with muslim student groups
by Bobby Maddex
Look, Mom, I'm a girl!
by Regis Nicoll
Art
An interview with Neo-Baroque painter Edward Knippers
by Bobby Maddex and Johan Conrod
Why We Need the Arts In Times of War
by Peggy Rosenthal
Film
Ten Films That Ask the Right Questions
Some movies just make you want to rethink your life.
by Bobby Maddex
Government/Politics
Abu Ghraib, Flannery O'Connor, and the problem of American innocence
by David Griffith
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Why it's no longer an either/or situation
by Herbert London
How American Politics Became Secularized
An excerpt from the book Total Truth
by Nancy Pearcey
A nation of assimilated immigrants
by Thomas M. Sipos
Literature
Peace, Love, and Traditional Values
A review of Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher
by Bernard Chapin
Single Male Alone . . . and On Fire
Review of The Rantings of a Single Male: Losing Patience
with Feminism, Political Correctness, and Basically Everything by Thomas Ellis
by Bernard Chapin
The Unbearable Lightness of Feminism
A review of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
by Bernard Chapin
Plumbing unfathomable depths of sea and spirit
by Jay D. Homnick
Music
The Art (If Any) of Rock Music
by S. T. Karnick
Brian Wilson's SMiLE reminds us that great music should bring great enjoyment.
by Fred Schendel
Philosophy
Materialism, magic, and the Global Consciousness Project
by Jordan J. Ballor
The scientific attempt to cheat death in a culture of death
by Terry Graves
Survival of the Metaphysically Fittest
If scientific naturalism is correct, then the scientific naturalist is on the brink of extinction.
by John D. Martin
Religion
for Dr. Mark Regnerus, sociology professor at the University of Texas and member of the Center for the Scientific Study of Religion
by Bobby Maddex
Tom's Cruise-ade
by Regis Nicoll
Science
An excerpt from Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards' groundbreaking book on the ways in which our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery
by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
What it means to question Darwinism
by Herbert London
My dream dialogue with Ellie Arroway
by Regis Nicoll
An excerpt from Denyse O'Leary's comprehensive book on the theories surrounding the origin of life
by Denyse O'Leary
The New Religion of Computer Consciousness
Transhumanists are working on their own cyber-immortalized Tower of Babel
by Leslie Sillars
Sex and Family
Abstinence, fertility cycles, and sex education
by Kate Bluett
Marriage Ain't What It Used to Be
. . . Or is it?
by Mike D'Virgilio
Planned Parenthood's Teenwire and its encouragement of adolescent sexual behavior
by Dawn Eden
Cheerleading gone wild
by Herbert I. London
by Sam Torode
Society
Freedom, responsibility, and the media
by Thomas M. Sipos
Twas the season for discrimination
by Thomas M. Sipos
Television
A review of Fox's new television series House
by Mike D'Virgilio
Sexist show calls Hollywood's progressive bluff
by Adam Groza
An interview with David Seltzer, the writer behind the confusing—and confused—NBC television series Revelation
by Bobby Maddex
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