Eradication Fantasies Don’t Come Free
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Over the years, I have come to fear people who suggest they are above hate, and its correlates like prejudice and anger, more than I fear people who quite openly... Read more.
Resist the Powerful Old and the Insouciant Young
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We must begin to stick to our guns when both the powerful old, and the insouciant young, spring the “Agree-with-my-sound-bite-version-of-the-truth-or-be-banished”... Read more.
Triumph of the ‘Mass-Man’
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The Pope cannot afford to be a mass-man, but he is one: unable to understand that his job is not to please his flock but rather to encourage them to become conscious... Read more.
The Sorrows of Empire
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There is no such thing as fully objective history, and that’s for a simple reason. History is generated in narrative form, and the creation of every narrative—as... Read more.
Children Are Gifts, Not Projects
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Could it be that if we were to take a bit more time to reflect on the inherent resourcefulness of our offspring as children of God, we might worry a little less... Read more.
Only Our Attention is Eternal
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It is the elites’ understanding of the prodigious power of attention that has led them to engage in their current campaigns of massive distraction, symbolized... Read more.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Ideological Spawn of George Bush Jr.
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Though many people of a more partisan cast may not want to hear it, the constitutional obtuseness demonstrated by Brown Jackson and an apparent plurality of her... Read more.
The Taboo Ingredient for Progress: Shame
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What no one told us, however, is that this reformist method of engendering peaceful change was highly dependent on the existence of a broadly-subscribed ethos of... Read more.
How the Sea Turns Stones Into Pebbles
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We’ve become, through a series of coercions and inducements forced on us by the government since 2001, and made banal through cult-like invocations and rituals,... Read more.
The Cartelization of Beauty
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Keeping it real thus also means making a conscious effort to find those spaces where the mediating practices of the elites are few and the chances for direct esthetic... Read more.
Feel-Good Leftist Abstractions Destroy Communities
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So yes, it is undoubtedly true that since the French Revolution, if not before, the political Left has been plagued by an unfortunate tendency to impose unproven... Read more.
The Wheels of Life
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The bicycle is the ultimate freedom machine; cheap, reliable, and largely beyond the ever-creeping reach of regulating authorities. It doesn’t saddle you with... Read more.