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Sundry, 4/6/16

The 3-way race
Who’s your Outgroup?
Trust us, for no particular reason
More than MTDs can stomach
The Harpies hit NC
NSFW: Googled at last
“Listless” will do

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readerjohn Benedict Option, Christendom, Education, Faith & Ideology, Internet, Moralistic therapeutic deism, Political Matters, The Ratchet, the worst are full of passionate intensity April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 5 Minutes

Friday, 3/4/16

A different Super Tuesday wrap-up
Marco did a good thing
Acquiring existence
The three-party system
Will this be on the test?
The technocratic system
Out of ideas

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readerjohn Capitalism, conservatism, Culture, Education, Journalism, liberalism, Naked Public Square, Political Matters, progressivism, Religious freedom, Scientism, Secularism March 4, 2016March 3, 2016 6 Minutes

Wednesday, 2/24/16

Dearly Beloved …
Qui sedes ad dexteram patris
Purgatory, Sanctification, Theosis
Othering
It’s a dispossessed thing. You wouldn’t understand

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Education, eulogy, Evangelicalism, History, Orthodoxy, Plutocracy, Political Matters, Religious freedom, Roman Catholicism, Salvation, the worst are full of passionate intensity February 24, 2016 7 Minutes

Wednesday, 2/10/16

The Mission of the University
#SB50
Social Glue
“Very Late Capitalism”
Moneychangers in the Temple
Reich Feels the Bern

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readerjohn Capitalism, Christendom, Damn rackets, Economia, Education, Sport February 10, 2016February 9, 2016 5 Minutes

Sunday, 2/7/16

In Nothing We Trust
Religious Haiku
“Same God” kerfuffle continues

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readerjohn Education, Evangelicalism, Islam, Journalism, Poetry February 7, 2016February 7, 2016 3 Minutes

Thursday, 2/4/16

In your own backyard
Required reading
The real-world context for effective policy
American military power
Not your usual pundit

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readerjohn Christianity generally, Economia, Education, Evangelicalism, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, Orthodoxy, Political Matters, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, war February 4, 2016February 3, 2016 5 Minutes

Thursday, 1/28/16

Secularism
The last word on Trump
Aristotle, Socrates, Wendell Berry
Is water wet?
Foundations

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readerjohn Benedict Option, Christianity generally, Creation Care, Education, Nominalism and Realism, Political Matters, Secularism, Worship January 28, 2016January 27, 2016 5 Minutes

New Year, not a moment too soon

The 4th and 8th amendments are dead
Obama DOJ kid-soft on hate-crime when hater is gay
The Real Role of Diversity
“Trump Democrats”
Absurdity and Overreach
Ted Cruz finds a new way to scare me
Finally, something positive

I really am not going to miss 2015.
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readerjohn Discrimination, Education, History, Justice, Legalia, Plutocracy, Political Matters, Rights Talk, war January 1, 2016January 1, 2016 8 Minutes

New Year’s Eve

No-fault tragedy
Rhetorical stalemate?
On re-reading Schmemann
But all the kids are eating pig slops, Mom!”
Ways to make states cooperate

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readerjohn death, Education, Evangelicalism, Holy Tradition, Legalia, Orthodoxy, Political Matters, Protestantism December 31, 2015December 30, 2015 4 Minutes

Gleanings, 12/30/15

Admissions “beyond the numbers”
Book list
Why would Richard Cory do such a thing?
2 signs of hope

Well. It looks as if I’ve mostly managed to free-associate off some Rod Dreher stuff, but it feels like time to publish the gleanings anyway.

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