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February 2017

February 10, 2017

So far away from home, so far away from home

Some Friday-night gleanings from the week's news, including: The 'queen hunter' chasing down terrorists; Alabama...

February 06, 2017

The culture wars and the class war have merged

"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is...

December 2016

December 12, 2016

Will we have overtime four years from now?

It will happen this way, slowly and quietly at first, then faster and louder, and...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

What ‘SJW’ really means

This "SJW" business doesn't involve an argument contrasting opposing views of the nature and meaning...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Now we get moose and squirrel

Yes, it's a picture of Donald Trump with Boris and Natasha, because we shouldn't forget...

August 18, 2016

That time when a terrorist attack struck the Olympic Games

Both Ryan Lochte's clumsy cover story and the media's initial credulous acceptance of it reveal...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

That time I was the evil opposite of Neoliberalism

I was supposed to learn what "Neoliberalism" means back in the early 1990s, in seminary....

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...

March 2016

March 06, 2016

The national ID card and the Mark of the Beast

For a big chunk of those voters, Orwell's language of "Big Brother" isn't the preferred...

February 2016

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...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Smart people saying smart things (1.21)

Ursula K. LeGuin reminds her local paper that public land belongs to the public. Maria...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Sometimes so strange, sometimes so sweet

The resignation of Wheaton College president Philip Ryken wouldn't completely unsoil the sheets there, but...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

For some it’s a con, for some it’s a game, and for some it’s a gnostic cult. And sometimes it’s all three at once.

I used to think that the audience supporting any given conspiracy theory was made up...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (3.20)

Conor Williams dissects David Brooks. Robin DiAngelo on white fragility. Kevin Kruse on the corporate...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Republicans divided on germ theory of disease and the monstrous legacy of Dr. Jonas Salk

President Obama urged parents to vaccinate their children. As a result, for the past two...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

‘It’s the Apocalypse, Stupid’: Matthew Sutton on how ‘Bible prophecy’ and Rapture mania deform American politics

"My argument in a nutshell is that the apocalyptic theology that developed in the 1880s...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Smart people saying smart things (6.20)

Flannery O'Connor assesses Ayn Rand. Christian Piatt and Carolyn Dupont on churches grappling with equality....

June 17, 2014

The ivy taps on the window pane

A few things, including: Nicolae Carpathia plays a role in Iowa's Senate race. The death...

June 11, 2014

Participating in deception: ‘Narrative can become fact’

Joseph Laycock's description of "ostension" and the "corrupt play" dynamics that fueled the Slender Man...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Postcards from the culture wars

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Right-wing hero and welfare-fraudster Cliven Bundy is a big honking racist, but you probably already knew that

Everyone was shocked this week to learn that right-wing gun-nut, "militia" hero and anti-American "patriot"...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

Haiti should not be the model for America’s future

What would it mean to do what they're suggesting? What would it look like if...

November 05, 2013

Libertarians, ‘moralism’ and the ‘Corrosive Politics of Virtue’

"Moralism" isn't a list of social issues. Moralism is about drawing lines and assigning blame....

May 2013

May 07, 2013

Blade Runner, Terminator, Minority Report and the deliberate sabotage of the Postal Service

Americans like the Postal Service. They rely on it and rely on being able to...

April 2013

April 10, 2013

Smart people saying smart things

Sandra M. Schneiders on why God is not a patriarch; Hillary Clinton on why empowering...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Taylor Branch on how George Wallace invented our current political discourse

Taylor Branch: "Wallace pledged to protect segregation. Only 50 years ago. He failed. But in...

July 2012

July 04, 2012

‘Libertarianism is [not] a philosophy of individual freedom’

At Crooked Timber, Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch have collaborated on a post...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

To save money, don’t exclude the poor, exclude the sick

The Republican privilege-principle of Tyler Cowen, Bryan Fischer and Rick Perry isn't just morally monstrous,...

June 28, 2012

‘Poor people will die just because they are poor’

That's a feature, not a bug. It's a boast, not an accusation. It is, the...

August 2011

August 16, 2011

Is Rick Perry a 'sucker,' or was he just lying?

Here's a good catch by Kevin Drum, by one of his readers in Iowa, and...