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Liberalism After Obama
With the Obama presidency coming to an end, much of the energy that might have been devoted to analyzing his legacy has been diverted by Donald Trump. But how can one make a fair analysis of a polarizing figure in American politics?
Speaking for myself, as someone of the left with libertarian tendencies, it’s difficult to have much sympathy to the man, however a lot of criticism coming from the…
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'The fact is, General, I would like very well to bury the whole lot of you.'
‘The fact is, General, I would like very well to bury the whole lot of you.’
A friend and admirer of Father Abram J. Ryan pointed me to this amusing anecdote:
A wanderer, Ryan left his footprints in various places in the 1860s, including as a priest in Illinois and Tennessee, where he was also an unofficial chaplain to Confederate soldiers. It was in Knoxville that he penned his most famous poem “in a little over an hour” and “out of a broken heart,” he said later. A…
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'American earth in old October'
‘American earth in old October’
Driving up to Geneseo tomorrow morning for the Front Porch Republic conference, and a long October drive made me think of this bit from Of Time and the River, what might be my favorite description of Fall (from “Telemachus”):
October is the richest of the seasons: the fields are cut, the granaries are ful, the bins are loaded to the brim with fatness, and from the cider-press the rich brown…
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A question for conservatives about religious liberty and unjust wars
A question for conservatives about religious liberty and unjust wars
The political right in America seems to have decided that “religious liberty” is a banner they can rally around. With Kim Davis’s jailing, they have their first hero.
But what is this new thing we claim to value, and what are its limits? Consider a Romanian Catholic infantryman, on the eve of the 2003 Iraq invasion, who receives this letter from his bishop:
Because such a moment of moral crisis…
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According to Habermas, all traditionalism has become neotraditionalism. From Heath’s Rebooting Discourse Ethics.
Localist linkfest
Over on the porch
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Sacred Harp 175: 'Highlands of Heaven' Sinner, go, will you go, To the highlands of heaven; Where the storms never blow, And the long summer’s given?
The Butcher Doctrine
CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM
To: The office of the President Cc: The office of the Sec. of State; the office of the Sec. of Defense; the office of the Chief of Staff Bcc: The office of the Sec. of the Interior; the office of the Sec. of Homeland Security Re: The present discontents
Dear Mr. President:
It is a great disappointment to me that no one in your administration could have foreseen the…
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Don't reach for your revolver
Don’t reach for your revolver
Hermann Göring is apocryphally reported to have proclaimed, “When I hear the word ‘culture,’ that’s when I reach for my revolver.” Reading our public discourse surrounding the notion of “culture,” I’m disturbed to find myself momentarily sympathizing with the sentiment of Göring’s misattributed quotation.
“Culture” is now reduced to yet another frontier in the backwater battlefield of Internet…
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The slave morality of sexual liberation
In Lenin’s time, a considerable number of young Marxists eagerly awaited a post-revolutionary society where getting sex would be really really easy.
Youth’s altered attitude to questions of sex is of course ‘fundamental’, and based on theory. Many people call it ‘revolutionary’ and ‘communist’. They sincerely believe that this is so. I am an old man, and I do not like it. I may be a morose…
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Localist linkfest, and guest hosting Mike Church Show next Thursday
Weekly links over on the porch
Also, I’ll be filling in again for Mike Church on Thursday, 6-9 AM on Sirius XM Patriot. Tune in. I’ll post guests here when I confirm them.
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The only attacks worth listening to are the ones nobody hears
The only attacks worth listening to are the ones that nobody hears
Last night, I was checking out a #gamergate meetup where Milo Yiannopoulos and Christina Hoff Sommers were appearing at, taking place at a bar called Local 16. I walk up the stairs and see the crowd, and suddenly memories of Magic: the Gathering tournaments come rushing back to me. I leave early, only to find out that at 12:15 people are evacuated for a “fire drill” which turns out to be a bomb…
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The age of exit
I wrote a piece for the Freeman arguing that we are in The Age of Exit.
Instead of ideological battles, the 21st century will be defined by political decentralization. Rather than enforcing a single political model as ideal for all of humanity, people will instead choose from a sort of political menu. Political decisions will be made on a more localized level, encouraging experimentation and…
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Even priests play ultimate from time to time! specially in the lunch break, you know…:D
Leave the 24 hour Christmas music cycle alone
Leave the 24 hour Christmas music cycle alone
The season of joy is here. And while many of the same troubles that have beleaguered mankind since antiquity (wars, famine, suffering) are still afflicting much of the globe, Christmas continues unabated. Department stores are decked out in green and red. Multi-colored lights decorate houses in middle class neighborhoods. Makeshift Christmas tree shops have sprung up in vacant parking lots.…
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When the ivory tower replaces the throne of God
When the ivory tower replaces the throne of God
It’s hard to get through the day without a good bout of consciousness-raising or thirty. You’d have to be an anarcho-primitivist hermit to miss any newspaper, television news program or social network mention Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, or Eric Garner. We’ve heard their names and know their stories.These men of color have changed the way some see police, their own neighbors, and the criminal…
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Don't Be Surprised by Gay Marriage; Not Even Straight People Respect the Institution
Don’t Be Surprised by Gay Marriage; Not Even Straight People Respect the Institution
To much surprise, the U.S. Supreme Court recently refrained from taking up cases involving gay marriage bans in five different states. As it stands, same-sex nuptials will remain legal in at least 30 states. There’s little doubt the rest of the country will eventually follow.
Gay marriage is coming in full force. Whatever remnants of traditional marriage remain have been vanquished by the…
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