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May 2016

May 16, 2016

Love > tolerance; but (love – tolerance – subsidiarity) < love

Take away all indirect responsibility and all of our more direct, more proximate responsibilities become...

May 04, 2016

The Bond villain running Donald Trump’s campaign

You might not think that a South Jersey slumlord would be only one step removed...

May 02, 2016

RIP Daniel Berrigan

"One may reject the claims of sainthood made on his behalf (he never made any...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Relitigating the Golden Rule

Protect religious groups you admire by protecting religious groups you do not admire. Otherwise you're...

April 28, 2016

OotGOism: ‘Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it …’

Mychal Denzel Smith: "When your self-conception is centered on the idea of your own goodness,...

April 22, 2016

I don’t have any right to pick the Republican nominee

I'm confused by some of the complaining about so-called "closed primaries." Pennsylvania's primaries are next...

April 20, 2016

Harriet Tubman stole from the rich and gave to the poor (cont’d.)

Honoring Harriet Tubman on official currency is somewhat ironic, of course, since Tubman was a...

April 18, 2016

What if we learned about the Bible from the people who got it right?

The victims of injustice tend to have a far better theological track record than the...

April 15, 2016

A generation which knew not Joseph

When it comes to the biblical story of Joseph, I'm with John Calvin. Joseph exploited...

April 12, 2016

The politics of white resentment (a slice of local history)

Here's a slice of very local politics from the 1970s that starkly parallels our national...

April 06, 2016

Are the good times really over for good?

Merle Haggard wrote and sang some terrific songs, and he collaborated and hung out with...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Donald Trump did not know the Standard Answer on criminalizing abortion

The Standard Answer is this: "Of course no one is talking about putting women in...

March 30, 2016

South Carolina GOP threatens evangelical churches

South Carolina Republicans are pushing a bill that would hold churches criminally and financially liable...

March 29, 2016

Educated men who are almost as ignorant about insurance as they are about human reproduction

Men who don't understand how sex works or what contraception does are now suing the...

March 24, 2016

Heels

Pat McCrory really, really wants to look in your young daughter's pants. And the North...

March 16, 2016

In the politics of resentment, resentment comes first

Marco Rubio got it backwards in his concession speech when he warned that "the politics...

March 10, 2016

That wasn’t a whistle (and everyone knows it wasn’t the dog)

That ploy never really fools anybody, but it provides a thin buffer of semi-plausible deniability....

March 03, 2016

Some people punch down when they get scared. True.

Amanda Taub has an excellent piece at Vox exploring "The rise of American authoritarianism." I...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Trump: 1980s punchline turned 21st-century demagogue

The Donald Trump who blustered his way into the spotlight back in the 1980s was...

February 25, 2016

The International Order of St. Hubertus

The truly creepy bit here doesn't have anything to do with whatever secret rituals or...

February 22, 2016

The dominionist is also a goldbug

A return to the gold standard would be disastrous, but it clearly would also produce...

February 21, 2016

Subsidiarity is really important, whether or not you call it that

If I abdicate my direct responsibilities, I will end up placing a heavier burden on...

February 20, 2016

Ben Carson does not understand subsidiarity

Undefined, undifferentiated pronouns are always the hallmark of someone who doesn't understand subsidiarity. Define and...

February 18, 2016

A prediction: Franklin Graham will ‘run for president’ in 2020

In simple terms: Carson's campaign consultants are Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom. Ben Carson himself...

February 17, 2016

The 1994 crime law

Back in 2013, progressives were unanimous and united in fighting for the extension of the...

February 12, 2016

American-style socialism (Do you wish to continue this transaction?)

The new law was a Good Thing. From now on, banks could no longer charge...

February 12, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (2.12)

Kali Holloway on "How Delusional Nostalgia Is Killing the White Working Class" (i.e., why Trump...

February 10, 2016

This generation has far too many ‘Ezras’ already, thanks

Ezra was such an abusive, wrong-headed jerk that whole chunks elsewhere in scripture go out...

February 09, 2016

I do not care for primary season

Primary campaigns, and particularly primary debates, tend to get bogged down in purity disputes. When...

February 04, 2016

Marco Rubio and the Hebrew Congregation of Newport

To Sen. Marco Rubio, President Obama's visit yesterday to a Baltimore mosque was "divisive." Obama's...