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2020-10-31T10:34:29-08:00

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The Red Sky on 9/11

Last updated on: October 31, 2020 at 10:34 am By Peter Hammond Schwartz

In late August, I drove from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Maine with my younger son. A baby seal was on my mind while we drove, which had been left to fend and forage for itself only weeks following its birth. Prior to leaving Washington state, I’d been watching it for about 10 days and become quite invested in its struggle to survive (about 40 percent of baby seals do not). The road trip was a surreal window into our... Read more

2020-10-30T09:59:15-08:00

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The Republican Senate’s Thousand-Year Reich

Last updated on: October 30, 2020 at 9:59 am By Peter Hammond Schwartz

But the federal courts have always been the big play for Republicans, and an obvious play when one considers the role of constitutional jurisprudence in mediating political conflict and the fact that federal judges are appointed for life. The 11th-hour confirmation of right-wing Catholic “originalist” Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat vacated by the passing of liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg represents the crowning achievement of this effort, to install the Republican Party version of Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich. Supreme... Read more

2021-02-08T05:15:18-08:00

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Last updated on: February 8, 2021 at 5:15 am By Peter Hammond Schwartz

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2020-07-22T18:28:05-08:00

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The Secret Mission | #2 | A Substack Newsletter | July 20, 2020

Last updated on: July 22, 2020 at 6:28 pm By Peter Hammond Schwartz

The Secret Mission is the title of my weekly Substack Newsletter. This is the 2nd issue. If you like the newsletter, feel free to sign up to receive it by email. I publish it every Monday at 7:00 pm ET. It is free! Contents Random Bites Calvin’s Ghost (#8): Ripped Balloon (Fiction) The Divinity of Data (Essay) Is “Anti-Racism” by Definition Self-Defeating? The Case of Princeton University (Note) Alt-Right Obsessions: Lord of the Rings (Note) Inklings Random Bites President... Read more

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2020-07-07T16:46:17-08:00

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Trump | Gollum

Last updated on: July 7, 2020 at 4:46 pm By Peter Hammond Schwartz

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo descending into one of the darker moments of his soul when he cannot shake Gollum–when, indeed, he imagines (presciently) that Gollum will haunt and harry him to the fiery chasms of Mount Doom–seeks counsel from Gandalf, and Gandalf tells Frodo that paths into the future do not run along straight tracks, they wind indifferently, with a dense air of mystery, into bramble and swamp alike, through darkness and light alike. We cannot fathom... Read more

2020-07-06T14:40:49-08:00

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Inkling News – Thousands of Stories. On Everything that Matters.

Last updated on: July 6, 2020 at 2:40 pm By Peter Hammond Schwartz

Sometimes writing connects us to the world. Sometimes writing helps us to escape from the world. And sometimes writing simply brings the weight of the world down upon us. In the last few weeks, the weight of the world threatened to crush me whenever I urged myself to write. So instead I built Inkling. Inkling is a news portal. It contains hundreds of customized, curated news feeds and thousands of stories. And it is fully automated. There are currently 10... Read more

2021-02-08T04:38:26-08:00

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Last updated on: February 8, 2021 at 4:38 am By Peter Hammond Schwartz

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2020-06-15T14:33:41-08:00

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The Silent Part Out Loud: A Creation Project Origin Story, Starring Antonin Scalia

Last updated on: June 15, 2020 at 2:33 pm By Peter Hammond Schwartz

This essay recalls how an essay I wrote in 2013 about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia alerted me to the deeper structures and dynamics of the modern American conservative movement. First published in The Descent of Man Substack newsletter. At the tail end of 2012, I sold a small online legal news and research company I had founded a decade before to legal data purveyor LexisNexis. Grudgingly, I assumed my new identity as a subaltern at this large company. Lexis... Read more

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2020-06-14T11:22:03-08:00

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William Barr and the Tropes of Natural Law

Last updated on: June 14, 2020 at 11:22 am By Peter Hammond Schwartz

This essay emphasizes how neo-Thomist Natural Law moral philosophy animates and defines the political and legal philosophy of Attorney General William Barr and his Federalist Society associates. First published in The Descent of Man Substack newsletter. Read more

2020-02-13T18:52:01-08:00

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It’s Okay To Hate Donald Trump. But Is It Enough?

Last updated on: February 13, 2020 at 6:52 pm By Peter Hammond Schwartz

Like many/most Americans, I loathe Donald Trump. I loathe him on his worst day, and I loathe him on his best. He is a bad person and the people who surround him and support him – in his family, in the White House, in the Republican Party, in the right-wing think tanks and political action committees – are also bad people. I loathe Trump and believe he is bad, not because of anything he has done or said in his... Read more

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