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Steel Decks and the Discipline of Force | Proceedings – July 2026 Vol. 152/7/1,481
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Compassion Is Not Capitulation: Truth and Women’s Sports
By David W. Schitoskey 30 June 2026 The Supreme Court’s recent women’s sports decision did not create a new moral universe. It recognized an old one: biological sex is real, athletic differences between males and females matter, and the law does not require schools to pretend otherwise. In West Virginia v. B. P. J. and […]
Read moreAI Data Centers Are Industrial Infrastructure. Regulate Them That Way.
The issue is not whether data centers should exist. The issue is whether private companies should be allowed to privatize the benefits while socializing the costs. By Davidws10 The public debate over artificial intelligence has become too abstract. One side speaks as if AI is an inevitable technological salvation. The other warns as if every […]
Read moreChrist Needs No Defense
Bonhoeffer, Cheap Grace, and the Rival Loyalties Forming the American Church Christ needs no defense. That sentence unsettles me because so much of American Christianity seems to have forgotten it. Christ is not fragile. His kingdom is not endangered by election cycles, cultural hostility, declining influence, hostile courts, hostile media, or the loss of national […]
Read moreWhy Stone & Steel Journal Writes Across Analysis, Faith, Fiction, and Memory
Stone & Steel Journal is a home for original writing across notebook reflections, defense analysis, faith and sermons, fiction, memoir, and special projects. This introductory post explains the purpose behind the journal and what readers can expect from its growing body of work.
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