POLITICAL prophets, as Mr. Chesterton once remarked, owe a good deal of their reputation to their habit of predicting as likely to happen in a dozen years or so something that indubitably did happen a ...
Calvin in Hell, Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger (c.1700–10). (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) “To understand Liberalism, we need to understand early modern Calvinism.” ...