Stifling the Great Conversation

  1. Stifling the Great Conversation
  2. Threatening a “Right to Exist”?
  3. Quarreling querulously
  4. Toleration
  5. Bad Religion
  6. Net neutrality
  7. Does anyone have what it takes?

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Saturday 1/28/17

  1. Principalities and Powers
  2. First-class, primo political pocket-picking
  3. Publish in haste, repent, repent, repent, repent at leisure
  4. Pat Buchanan #Fail
  5. 1 in 4, give or take several orders of magnitude
  6. Just listen, jerkheads
  7. Dead, not vulgar, shoddy and debased
  8. A little lifting of the veil

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Where are the Watchmen? (Day 2)

I attended the Eighth Day Symposium, an Orthodox-inspired but broadly somewhat ecumenical gathering, Friday and Saturday. The Symposium title was “Where Are the Watchmen?,” based on a September 2016 Harpers essay by Alan Jacobs.

Some highlights of Saturday (Friday’s highlights are here). Sit back. It’s long — but very rewarding. I’ll highlight the links to my personal favorites, but your mileage may vary.

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